Being busy doesn’t mean we can’t stay healthy. Exercise can help prevent future health issues, even with a busy schedule. The best part is that effective exercise doesn’t have to be complicated and can be done in a short amount of time.

Working from home with children means planning ahead and having a few shrewd tactics up your sleeve.

To honor Parent’s Day while empowering careers, employers can establish flexible work schedules, provide generous parental leave, encourage transparent communication, lead by example, automate property management processes, offer financial education, and create mentorship programs. These strategies foster a balanced work-life environment, benefiting both employees and the organization, and recognizing the value of family and career commitments.

Effective time management is vital for teens, offering reduced stress, improved productivity, and personal growth. Research demonstrates a strong link between time management and academic success in teenagers. To excel in time management, teens should set SMART goals, create schedules, and seek support while balancing their commitments.

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For working moms, the job is difficult as their responsibilities include parenting and taking care of their kids. Read about the tips on how moms working from home can achieve a better work-life balance.

It is not easy to find balance. In fact, it is close to impossible. But you are a mother, a wife, and a businesswoman – you have already proven that you are up for the challenge. Here are some tips that will help you.

While working from home offers several perks, it’s challenging to stay productive and accomplish work tasks for the day. Fortunately, there are simple yet effective rituals that can help supercharge your productivity as a working mom.

It’s a challenge to stay productive when working from home without any distractions, and even challenging to do so when you have a baby. Busy moms and dads need to stay super organized if they are to continue working from home after the baby is born.

Time flies when you’re have fun, and college is one of the places where there is a lot of fun to be had. However, you still need to study, attend classes, and make excellent grades in college. There is no doubt that time management skills are essential if you want to make the most of your college years.

Work-life balance is a term often tossed around in the workplace as it makes the company look more desirable to employees. But, let’s face it, not all companies advocate for work-life balance. Work-life balance means that there is an equilibrium between the demands of a career and the demands of our personal lives. Despite it being often incorporated into our company goals, a work-life balance is difficult to achieve.

Remote operations have become a familiar feature of our digital landscape. What can managers do to help balance both the advantages of remote work while maintaining high efficiency?

The pandemic has resulted in a huge rise in the number of remote workers. Working from home is obviously not a new concept, but a lot of people have only recently encountered it for the first time, and most of them have had an initial positive attitude towards this shift.

CRM, a short form for customer relationship management, is software used by business teams or individuals to optimize communications with customers. But what does CRM do? The software enhances relationship building and management for better customer experience from the first interaction to purchase and return.

Sleep is one of the most important things people need to survive and thrive in life. With this being the case, getting the right amount of high quality sleep is so important to your well-being as a leader.

A productive individual is one whose effort achieves the purpose of trying out an endeavor in the most effective way possible. I always put an effort to know more about ways to make myself more productive in every area of my life, and since you’re reading this, I’m pretty sure that you’re also putting in an effort to learn ways to be productive.

OKRs stands for Objectives and Key Results, a goal management system created by CEO of Intel Andy Grove that keeps workers on track to achieving project aims. OKRs are designed to align the goals of individuals and teams with the company’s, prioritize actions, improve team communication and engage employees in running successful projects.

Your credit score is more important today than potentially anytime in the past. A great score can help you to borrow money at a reduced cost, qualify for mortgages, valuable credit cards, and can even help you get a job. There are myriad reasons why you want to have a high credit score.

You may be a month into working from home and wondering how to remain productive while working from home. You are not alone. There are many things that you can do to create a home office that ensures success.

I like to think of myself as a productive person. I have a list of tasks and prioritize to get those tasks accomplished. However, I have suffered failures by not defining my productivity for a specific purpose.

Watching over your children and still remaining productive is a big challenge of working from home. What are the tricks to work from home and continue to lead by example both at home and in the workplace?

Making sure your team is on the same page can be difficult when you have no face-to-face interaction or when your needs aren’t clearly defined. Letting your employees know from the beginning what your expectations are and remaining consistent are crucial steps to keeping your remote team focused, so your business can run smoothly.

The modern American family is seemingly busier than ever. However, that doesn’t mean families have changed entirely. For example, parents typically want to provide their kids with nutritious meals.

Even today, when women have equal rights to men, women still have to fight for the society’s approval of their life choices. The scenario of the traditional family role division, where the father brings home the bread and mother stays at home with children is still perceived as the only “right” way by a great number of people.

Having a successful business is a glamorous idea, but it requires a lot of hard work. There are things such as production, human resources, operations, marketing, and finances that you need to keep in mind. However, there are things that you may tend to overlook when running a business. That is the cleanliness of your space. Cleanliness actually has a surprising effect on your business.

As an entrepreneur, you must make sure that you manage your calendar both effectively and efficiently. If you do not, you will soon find yourself lagging behind your close competitors. Therefore, it is important that you know about the signs that will indicate whether or not you are managing your calendar properly.

If you’re like most people, you’ll love working from home. However, it definitely makes a change from traditional office work. As long as you are prepared and have the right mind set, you’ll be able to see the benefits right away.

Becoming a parent can be an incredible adventure, but it’s not all sunshine and roses. For many parents, the most difficult thing of all is lack of sleep.

Being a working mom is like working a double shift; the second you finish one, you’re on to the other, and the cycle never seems to end. Given the busyness of your role, maintaining your health may take a backseat.

What are your signs that you’re a parent who works outside the home?

It can sometimes feel like quite a challenge to be a responsible mom. Having to hold down a job and maintain financial stability on top of that can make it seem even more difficult to stay on top of essentials like money management.

Being a mom is hard work. Moms are much more likely to work full time now than in the past. Despite this, they’re also usually responsible for handling most household responsibilities.

Entrepreneurs, “solopreneurs,” top businesses, or newbie startups, all need the power of social media to get their word across to the thousands of people in the world.

Getting through B-School was one of the toughest things I’ve ever done. It ranks right up there with having four children, and having a full time career. I’ve had to learn a few survival skills over the years, so I thought I would share some working mom career tips that I’ve learned.

It’s true. There really are only 24 hours in a day. Thus it is necessary to have some working mom trade-offs for survival, sanity, and thriving in this crazy environment.

As a working mom with four kids, balance is a never-ending challenge. I have demands constantly pulling me in every single direction. To get to a state of balance, try these tips for working parents.

Clearly, any aspect of your business can benefit from having a system. So what do you do? What do you “systemize” first?

Maybe you’ve heard that joke about how to eat an elephant? The answer: You eat an elephant one bite at a time. It’s good advice, not just for eating an elephant, but also for getting things done, especially when you’re feeling overwhelmed by your list of “to-dos”.

Being a parent is one long sociology experiment. I’d say that is particularly true if you have middle or high school kids in your house.

When I started on my own one of the biggest challenges I faced was how to be productive at my home office. As much work as there is to do, there is equally as many distractions vying for our attention.

If I can’t get more hours in a day, then I certainly want to get more stuff done in a day. Finding ways to squeeze more productivity out of the same number of hours is where finding the right tools and tricks comes in.  

One of the hardest things to handle at work is the constant pinging, poking, and the constant multitasking. Frankly, it is distracting, and a huge drain on productivity.

Women entrepreneurs spend most of their time juggling the demands of a successful career and the demands of a personal life. Although most women believe that achieving the elusive work-life balance is impossible, it is possible.

Every so often, my entire world seems to flip itself upside down. It did so a few years ago, when my dad had to be admitted to the hospital. This isn’t the first time I’ve had to deal with this sort of thing, and I’m sure it won’t be the last.

When you leave corporate and enter into the world of entrepreneurship, the first thing to become obvious is that no one tells you what to do or how to do it. You are the one expected to make all the decisions.

One of the habits of very successful people is that they use their time wisely and productively. What this means for each person will be a bit different, but generally it means – all of your time should have a purpose. Become a Time-Master.

Sometimes life comes really fast. Sometimes it’s like a fun house gone mad, or a roller coaster ride that seems impossible to get off of. Keeping sane in midst of the insanity is not always easy to do, and many times is downright impossible.

There don’t seem to be many places where I can look up a list of tools that other moms have tried and use for their day to day survival. This includes simple things like sending cards for birthdays, ordering birthday gifts, communication tips, calendar tools, childcare, and backup childcare options.

One of the most important skills for MBA survival is time management. I will be posting a lot of tips in this blog about time management in general, but also specific tips that helped me get through the program, and do it with my sanity still (mostly) intact.

As a culture, we’ve actually normalized and even praised our common addiction to busyness. We expect successful people to be busy, so we present a persona of busyness in order to be perceived as successful.

One very important working mom survival tip is to build your team. However, I am limited to 24 hours per day. I require sleep.  I don’t do time travel either. So, what’s a girl to do?

One of the most difficult lessons in life is learning which battles to fight. You and only you can decide how you will expend your energy. It can be tough to remember that others do not get to make those decisions for you.

In our previous Leadership Girl post on being Addicted to Busyness, we explored the first step toward tackling your Addiction to Busyness – by eliminating tasks on your to-do list that you find draining instead of energizing. The next step in overcoming this addiction to busyness is examining why we, as individuals, feel the need to stay busy.

Have you been struggling with time management and desperately need to reclaim your time? Time management is about getting more accomplished and having time left over to enjoy your life. If you don’t engage in effective time management, then you’ll find yourself wishing you could get more hours in a day consistently, and wondering where all of your time goes.

“Put First Things First” is the third habit in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. What exactly does that mean?

The second of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective people is to begin with the end in mind.

The first habit of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is to be proactive.  What exactly does being proactive mean?  What are the implications of being proactive?

In our faced paced, 24/7 culture, Addicted to Busyness Syndrome (ATBS) has become an unspoken epidemic, most commonly among women. Not only does our society put these expectations on us, but we also set unreasonably high expectations for ourselves.

If you don’t follow a timetable, you might begin your day by taking a seat at your work area pondering what you will do today. Chances are good that you won’t be very productive, and likely will not achieve anything critical.

Have you ever felt that you needed another “you” to get it all done? Parenting these days is a full time job. If you are a mother and have ever felt that you just couldn’t get it all done, you are not alone.

Angie Carter is a mom of 3 and business owner. She made the transition from working for others to running her own business designing her own line of personalized totes in the wedding related space.

Do you ever feel so stressed that you’d just like for the world to stop spinning for a few minutes so that you can get off? I know there are times that is exactly how I feel. Too much to do and not enough time to do it in. In this 24/7 go, go, go world, how do you survive?

If you’ve set a goal and aren’t specific about how you will achieve it, then it’s just a wish, and likely to never be accomplished. The S.M.A.R.T. method is an acronym to help with setting and achieving goals in business of specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. It takes goals from blurry to real, actionable plans to achieve tangible and powerful results.

Too many entrepreneurs never learn to say ‘no’. In an effort to get their business off the ground and keep it up and running, they say ‘yes’ to everything. They end up trying to do too much for too many. Don’t let this happen to you.

Like most entrepreneurs, you’re probably juggling lots of hats and could use some help with productivity and organization. Fortunately, we live in a time where everything has an app. The following four apps will make managing all your hats much easier.

We live in a noisy world, where instant messages, social media and never ending emails are a constant distraction in the work place… and to our brain.

Many women want the best of both worlds – stay home with baby and be able to contribute financially to the family while working from home. This sounds like the ideal situation, until you actually try to do the work with children present. If you don’t set a realistic tone for your work-at-home venture early on, this will turn into frustration fast.

Working Mom Nicole Bruno has 3 children. She is the co-founder of a non-profit organization called Guiding Lights, which provides support to family and professional caregivers.

Entrepreneur Vish Dutt lives in New Jersey and is the owner of Smiling Snaps Productions, a DVD Slideshows business. After getting a degree in computer science, she worked in New York City as a web developer and graphics designer. Once she had kids, she became a stay-at-home mom.

A busy mom of two boys, Rachel Withers blogs about Fitness, Faith, and Family at FitTriangleMom.com. A North Carolina native, she likes to share local activities happening in the Triangle region. When she’s not playing with her kids, she enjoys writing, reading, running, and date nights with her husband.

Rachel Brenke is an author, photographer, lawyer, and business consultant for photographers and bloggers. She currently helps creative industry and blogging professionals all over the world initiate, strategize, and implement strategic business and marketing plans through various mediums of consulting resources and legal direction.

Stephanie Harris is the owner of Triangle Amusements, Inc., located in Holly Springs, NC. She has always had an entrepreneurial spirit and has finally found her niche with Triangle Amusements, Inc.

About a decade ago, Noa Ronen moved from Israel to Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two small children. She began working for a non-profit organization, and eventually started a blog about being an Israeli mom in New York City. Her blog became a business, and inspired her to become a Certified Life and Transition Coach. Noa and her family now reside in North Carolina.

Mofoluwaso Ilevbare (aka Fofo) is a transformational Vibrant Life & Leadership Coach, Speaker, and Trainer. A social entrepreneur & women-in-the-boardroom advocate, Fofo champions a charity for empowering women and young girls in Africa and around the world.

Time studies fall into the category of scientific management and their underlying purpose is to establish standard times for completing a given task. The basic goal of the time study remains the same – to establish some baseline from which to measure productivity and then to improve it.

A few years ago, I was a member in active working mom board on Babycenter, and the topic of time management came up on probably a weekly basis. One of the women posed the theory of limited energy, which I’ve learned to apply to everything in my life.

Entrepreneur Candi King is a mom of four children, ranging in age from 9 to 14. She has worked with wood extensively, and makes a variety of different wood items, including puzzles, doll houses, and barns. She also sews, and makes reusable cloth gift bags.

Have you ever wished you could get your day off to a better start? Or that you could actually get to bed on time without getting hooked into staring at Facebook for two hours? If so, I get it. And I have an idea that could really change everything for you. The idea is based on creating morning and evening routines, and you create these routines using habit stacking. Let me explain.

When you have a lot to do, you need to be able to do things as quickly and efficiently as possible. The right tools serve as shortcuts that will help you maximize your productivity. Since we all rely on our phones to do just about everything, it doesn’t hurt to rely on a few smart iPhone apps designed to help you get work done.

Without a balance of both family and career, you will most likely end up with one or the other — not both. I think it’s important to have both in your life in order to be truly happy and fulfilled.

Modern technology has enabled businesses to offer working from home more and more, so you’ve likely had the opportunity to decide if working from home is an option for you. However, unexpectedly having kids around the house can throw a wrench in your perfect plan. Whether they’re your own children or somebody else’s, getting work done while they’re around is difficult, but can be done.

When traveling for business, you probably like to have a little bit of fun on top of all the work you have to do. However, your top priority is probably making sure you stay on schedule.

There is no better time to start a business than right now, especially if you are a senior entrepreneur. What are you waiting for? You have acquired all the skills and experience you need, and if you need to brush up on a few things, then there are thousands of resources out there that can help you. Becoming your own boss is an incredibly rewarding goal in life, but you’ll have to work hard for it. 

Jodi Murphy is a Safety Engineer with a construction/maintenance company in Jacksonville, Florida. After a 20 year career in the Navy as a carpenter, Jodi retired and went to college to earn a Masters in Occupational Safety and Health. She now applies her experience to ensure the health and safety of over 200 workers.

Is overwhelm an expected part of being an entrepreneur? Or is it really just burnout in disguise?.

As a business owner, chances are pretty good that your days are filled to the brim with more than enough tasks that need to get done. You’re busy, and no matter how good you are at setting goals and prioritizing and scheduling your time, spending time in the kitchen still takes precious time away from other activities.

Every job’s workload requires some juggling. There is always a lot to stay on top of, and if a person isn’t organized, they can get fired. But how can you stay on top of all your work without feeling stressed and overwhelmed?