In the last edition, we started on ‘Your Career and Your Home’ how it is very possible to have a thriving career and still have a happy home. Today, we conclude by giving you tips on how you can best maintain the balance. • You just have to keep investing in your home - your husband and children even as you move up your career ladder. Carry them along. Make time to be together as a family. Show your husband the love and care he deserves; remember your primary role as a woman is to be a help-meet to him. Value time alone with your husband on a daily basis. Let him know you place a premium on this time you spend together. It could be as little as 30 minutes of your very busy day, maybe just watching the news together or just chatting over some sporting events on the TV. And you don’t have to like sports to do this. Sneak into his time and as time goes on, he will learn to respect that time and to reserve it for you.

• Make sure you devote sometime in a year, at least, two weeks to go on a holiday together. Where your children are young, you will have no choice than to take them along, but work out a day or two when you can leave them with a family member or friend so you can have time alone together with your husband. You will be surprised at the amount of bonding that will result from this.

• Invest in your children. Devote quality time to nurture and groom them, inculcating in them values that will equip them for the future. Show interest in what they do. Help with their studies if only on weekends. Get to know their friends and the people they move with. Take them out once in a while and remember to spend time daily with the entire family. Where you cannot have supper together spend at least 5 minute praying together either before going out in the morning or bed time in the evening. Vacation with your children should be a priority. It doesn’t have to be in London or New York. If you cannot afford it, a beautiful resort in your city can be equally exciting.

If you do not learn to manage your home and career properly while you are still making your way up the ladder, you may find it difficult to do so when you reach the top of the ladder. As a matter of fact, you are most likely not to do better when you get to the top.
Woman, you are a multi-tasked creature. You are custom-made to handle the roles. So, just rise up to the challenge?


You can make a difference!