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

Chapter . Six Steps to Career/Family Balance

Step 1. Commit to Wanting Both a Career and Family: Rethinking Your Priorities

• You can have career and family in the same time frame. Don’t postpone one past its rightful time for the other.

• The leadership challenge requires us to define our balance.

Illusion: We can fulfill our career goals and our family goals at separate times during our lives.

Reality: Career and family should be done simultaneously. If we sacrifice our career goals to satisfy our family goals, we are not balanced. If we focus on our career at the expense of our families, we are not balanced.

Critical Success Factors

• Think hard about what you really value and what you really want.

• Take responsibility for being proactive about attaining ...