Perhaps, you would agree that "only Superwoman can juggle it all"....because in her fictional world she does not encounter the same challenges that career women face today.
Every so often life throws a curveball. As more women enter the workforce, and many become the primary breadwinners, there is a structural shift taking place in organizations and households. Changes at work and in the home are often both necessary in order to continue living life at the status quo, and these adjustments often times bring stress and other emotional barriers.
In "The Work/Life Balance Planner: Resetting Your Goals" and "When Doing It All Won't Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women" the authors help career women recognize and anticipate these impending changes, assess options and predict outcomes with one objective in mind: making sure life-long goals are met.
These books are excellent resources for any working woman going through a shift in her career, adaptable to almost any lifestyle change and allows the reader to work at their own pace, gather facts and define goals.
Investigating a career change affects everyone in a family. Even if a job change is a short-term situation, the impact on the family can color the way members interact with one another. Life can become stressful and relationships strained unless everyone makes an effort to pull together and move through this period.
As you know, career women struggle with countless expectations, too much to do in too little time, and the fact that they receive little of the support or recognition they want and deserve. In an effort to squeeze even more into their nightmarish schedules, these women continue to make choices that actually undermine their health, family life, careers and important relationships.
Women are dancing to a frenzied beat, believing just because they can, they should. They have been taught, if they are capable of doing something, it shouldn't be necessary to look for help. This has led women to become frustrated by experiencing long days and frantic schedules. Many working women are exhausted. Isn't it time that career women reclaimed their time and life?
On the other hand, this situation can be positive. This may be the opportunity you and other family members have been waiting for. This could be the chance to look at a different career for yourself or others in the family. Perhaps evaluating other options will be the action that will change the family dynamics in a positive way.
Let's be clear, these books aren't just for the dissatisfied. They are a prescription for identifying the various aspects of your life that make you unique, without which, you may never be able to understand why you behave or react the way you do. These books are neither relaxing nor a break from reality where the reader just rides along. They are a vehicle where the reader is in the driver's seat and sets the GPS to get to where she wants to be in her career and personal life.
Sources: Ann Kepler: The Work/Life Balance Planner: Resetting Your Goals
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