How To Maintain A Work-Life Balance

Disclosure: This is a collaborative post. Work plays a significant role in people’s lives. Sometimes, work takes precedence over everything else. Your desire to succeed professionally can put a damper on your well-being. Creating a stable work-life balance is very crucial in today’s time. It helps improve not only your physical, mental and emotional well-being, but it also helps you achieve your career goals. Being healthy and having a stable mindset can work wonders towards achieving your career goals. You may achieve such a balance by first thinking about how you want to go about it. What do you understand…

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6 Success Tips for Female Entrepreneurs in Events Planning

Disclosure: This is a collaborative post. Times have changed. More women are trying their hand at entrepreneurship than ever before. Even so, it is not without challenges. It calls for a lot of determination to be a cut above the rest as a female entrepreneur. In the event planning space, things are no different. The challenges of events planning need one to be a tough cookie and have a few extra tips above their sleeves. Here are some success tips for female entrepreneurs in events planning. Have organizational skills Events planning calls for a high level of organization. Organizational skills…

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Does It Ever Get Easier?

When I returned to work full-time (admittedly, a lot sooner than I had planned) I was nervous of the impact it would have on our family life, and on me.  After a rocky first few weeks we found a routine and it seemed to work for us.  I was in the honeymoon period of my new job and, despite living through five months of chaos as we extended our house, we coped and I was happy to be back in the workplace again. Naively, I thought we’d cracked it, but this year so far has been tough from a working…

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Working Full Time – Six Months Later

At the weekend I was scrolling through my Instagram and came across this post from the end of September… Four weeks into full time work and I’m not going to lie, I’m knackered. The boys are knackered! O is struggling to get used to the longer days with breakfast and after school club, and G cries every time I leave him at nursery. My nails are a disgrace and I’m missing my old work friends more than I ever thought I would. Okay, moan over and time to look forward to the weekend. Me and the boys have new PJ’s,…

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A Leap Of Faith – Returning To Full Time Work

I wasn’t planning to return to full time working, certainly not in the short term.  If I’m being honest I wasn’t sure I would ever return to working five full days again but life has a funny way of throwing you a curveball just when you think you have everything sorted out. For a long time now my career hadn’t really been at the forefront of my mind.  If you’ve followed my blog for a while you’ll know we were busy concentrating on trying to complete our family.  Whilst I wasn’t particularly happy in my current job I wouldn’t have felt…

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