Having It All... and Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First

Chapter 5. Involve Your Loved Ones in Creating Balance: Refining Your Balance

You can’t create balance in a vacuum. When you involve your significant others at home and at work in designing and refining your work-family balance plan, you will have greater success. It is especially important to have both parents in balance.

In the previous few chapters, we discussed how we can understand, define, and prioritize those things that are most important to us in our career and families, then provided ways to engage in dialogue with bosses and co-workers. This process also applies to family matters. Refining our balance always means giving due time and attention to friends and family.

Four Strategies

We can strengthen our long-term capacity for balance by ...