“Poor Phil! You have it so bad, don’t you?”
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Hi! I'm Amanda Alexander PCC, Director of Coaching Mums. Welcome to the blog!
Since founding Coaching Mums in 2003, I've helped thousands of working mums across the World to create a sense of balance, fulfillment and success on their own terms.
Here on the blog, you'll find tonnes of free online coaching tools and tips to help you as a working mum to juggle all the roles you play... without losing the plot!
How to Deal With Separation Anxiety as a Working Mum
No matter how reassured to the contrary, working mums will always have that little unshakeable belief that the root of their child’s separation anxiety lies with their dual role as a worker and a mother.
Let me start off by stating, one more time, into those tired and cry-dented ears, that separation anxiety is a common occurrence to all children between the ages of seven months to three years old, even if their mothers are not working mums and rarely even leave a room without them. Read More
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Post has no comments.Life Work Balance Tip: Do you expect your employer to sort out your work life balance?
Achieving work life balance for working mums, as I keep banging on about, is at least in part down to our own attitude and our actions. In the website www.jobs.com, a comment in a recent blog post I've just come across about work life balance mirrors my own stance. Read More
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Post has no comments.Debating the value of that “pernicious and wholly pejorative expression ‘having it all.’
In our previous instalment discussing the idea of working mums today wanting and having “it all,” it’s clear the issue has attracted widespread attention in both professional and popular media, particularly with the release of leading lady Emma Thompson’s controversial statement on the subject. Read More
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MomAgain@40 commented on 28-Oct-2010 09:39 AM
What's wrong with wanting it all? Why can't we aspire to doing and being better at everything?
If there is a gender who can juggle everything, it is definitely the female species! ;-)
Great post!
If there is a gender who can juggle everything, it is definitely the female species! ;-)
Great post!
Working Mums Debate: Can you have it all? And do you actually want it all?
We’ve come a long way, baby, so the saying goes. But, have we really? This question arises frequently within my working parents’ and working mums’ group coaching discussions. How far have the perceptions of society progressed with regards to motherhood and a mother’s decision to work outside the home? Read More
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Catriona Welsby commented on 27-Oct-2010 10:08 AM
Thanks for a great article Amanda! I hadn't actually heard about Emma Thompson's remarks but find it hard to believe that she manages to get her kids to and from school/nursery, cook their dinner each night, help with homework, clean the home, and do her day job which involves time out on location etc etc. There is absolutely no way she does all that without any help, even if that help comes from family and friends.
But what I found really interesting was that your article made me think about what 'having it all' means. Some people may think I 'have it all' - two flexible businesses with a great income, working part-time hours, being able to take my son to school and pick him up..... But I don't feel like I have it all. Let's face it, some extra money would always be nice, extra time with our children would always be nice, extra time with our partners would always be nice. I don't believe anyone 'has it all' because whatever level we are at, there's always something another rung up. As humans, we are never 100% content with what we've got (or at least not for longer than a month or so in my humble opinion!).
The definition of 'having it all' depends on the individual. For some women, 'having it all' is being able to be a stay-at-home mum without any financial concerns. For others, 'having it all' is being able to work full time in a job they love, whilst enjoying their children at evenings and weekends. For others, it's having flexible, part-time businesses that make a great income.
So we can go on striving to 'have it all', but I don't think any of us will ever truly believe we've achieved that. And do we really want to? Life might be boring if there was nothing else to aim for!
But what I found really interesting was that your article made me think about what 'having it all' means. Some people may think I 'have it all' - two flexible businesses with a great income, working part-time hours, being able to take my son to school and pick him up..... But I don't feel like I have it all. Let's face it, some extra money would always be nice, extra time with our children would always be nice, extra time with our partners would always be nice. I don't believe anyone 'has it all' because whatever level we are at, there's always something another rung up. As humans, we are never 100% content with what we've got (or at least not for longer than a month or so in my humble opinion!).
The definition of 'having it all' depends on the individual. For some women, 'having it all' is being able to be a stay-at-home mum without any financial concerns. For others, 'having it all' is being able to work full time in a job they love, whilst enjoying their children at evenings and weekends. For others, it's having flexible, part-time businesses that make a great income.
So we can go on striving to 'have it all', but I don't think any of us will ever truly believe we've achieved that. And do we really want to? Life might be boring if there was nothing else to aim for!
Life Work Balance Tips: 7 Self-Limiting Belief Busters
There are a number of ways I coach mums to battle their self-limiting beliefs, and following on from my previous blog post, here are more Life Work Balance tips and 7 of my favourite Self-Limiting Belief Busters! Read More
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Post has no comments.Free virtual seminar for working parents on Work Life Balance: UK National Work-Life Week
During National Work-Life Week, which runs from 27th September, I’ll be running a complimentary virtual seminar to teach working parents how to apply seven simple habits to improve their resilience, keep perspective when all around is a whirlwind and find time for a bit of fun ... even when “life ain’t perfect”. Read More
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Post has no comments.Life Work Balance Tip: Feel the Self-Limiting Belief....and Do It Anyway!
Or should this post be entitled, "When is a self-limiting belief not actually self-limiting"? I was inspired to write this post by one of my FaB clients who I coached earlier this week on a self-limiting belief around money. I felt this life work balance tip would help you with your self-limiting beliefs.
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Anonymous commented on 21-Sep-2010 10:05 PM
This couldn't have come at a more appropriate time. Only about ten minutes earlier I received an email offering an interesting job opportunity. While reading the i-did-this-in-the-90s-with-my-eyes-closed description to my husband, I commented that the sad thing was that I was doubting that i could deliver on the project. Thanks for reinforcing the fact that this way of thinking was b******s.
Work is less stressful than 15 years ago" REALLY?!
This was a headline in last Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph. Apparently, in 1990, British workers spent 37% of their day working "intensively", then peaked at 49% in 1995 but this fell to 40% in the latest update covering 2005. Read More
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incredibly tidy. The other one is gradually learning!