Balancing Work and Family

Balancing Work and Family can be a huge deal made easy with these positive and inspirational strategies and tips that includes daily inspirational quotes and positive quotes about family.

Lifelong peace and happiness can be obtained with a strong family. Society needs strong families. Strong families need strong marriages. Strong marriages need people with strong hearts and a good balance of what's essential in life.

*Here is how the process starts...

The first thing to do in regaining that life work balance and focus on family is to determine the things that are most important to you.

The second step is to create a list and write down what those important things are. Starting with the most important.

The third step is to focus on the the top 2 or 3 items that you have put on your list.

The fourth step is to begin to center the bulk of your daily actions around those 2-3 more important items on your list.

By following this uncomplicated process you will be half way to accomplishing your goal of balancing work and family. You will begin to get in tune with the important things in your life and this will lead you and your family true happiness that can only be achieved from a strong family.

*The support of a strong family at home helps people and helps careers.

The road to a strong family is an exploratory journey and one of profound discovery. It’s an imperfect path created by many decisions and a great deal of risk taking and much learning.

As the path unfolds before you, you’ll make decisions that will lead to one direction and you’ll suddenly see yourself going in a different direction.

The decisions you make are never always permanent but just another step in the direction that you wish to go.

Keep an open mind to experiences you never expected to encounter and never be afraid to make a wrong decision.

Stay firm to a solid core of values and principles and know that through all the confusion and uncertainty that you’ll face, you’ll always be moving in the path you wish to go even in times when it seems that you’re moving in the opposite direction.

Be grateful for the blessings of all your strengths and know that you have the God given gifts to withstand everything that is put in front of you even in times of true test.



Build your path to a strong family and for all your work you’ll be blessed with so much more.

~J. Charest

"Make It A Good Day"

*Strategies to Balancing WORK AND FAMILY

1. Life Work Balance is a Daily Effort. Your actions need to turn into part of your daily effort. The balancing part doesn't come naturally. Find inspiration for your actions in our inspirational quotes (put into picture in this post) and learn how they can help you make positive changes.

2. Make a List and Write Down Your Priorities (like what I've said previously). It's important to point it out again. It will be easier to act on the stuff that matter most to you if you actually write them down on paper and you can also put it on your tablet's or mobile phone's organizer. Keep the list near you or you can make a daily alarm and review it each day to reinforce your actions toward positive focus on family success.

3. Stick To Your Family Values. You will need to make challenging decisions along the way. Stand firm to your values and belief no matter how hard the decision is to start moving towards positive life and family changes. Know your priorities and stick to them.

4. Remain Flexible in Your Efforts to Achieve Balance. Life will throw you hard puches and your life situation will change and you may need to make adjustments along the way. It's important to stay open minded to change and stay flexible in your efforts.

5. Stay Healthy and Reduce Stress. Sickness and stress at work can put undue pressure on family life. Working long hours, no exercise and poor eating habits will lead to poor health and increased stress. Exercise regularly and eat healthy and your family will benefit. Healthy living is a very important family value and an important part of balancing work and family..

*BALANCING WORK AND FAMILY QUIZ

1. Are you successful at making the time to do things with your family everyday?

2. Do you engage in a quality family time on a regular basis without feeling anxious or thinking about work?

3. Can you participate in family activities without interrupting those activities with concerns of unfinished business at work?

4. Can you keep your focus on family during family time without worrying about your own life work balance?

If you answered "YES" to all of the questions, then you are well on your way to balancing work and family. But don't stop here because there is still more work to do in strengthening your family values.

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
~Polish Proverb


*Additional Tips for Balancing Work and Family

Your success at balancing work and family will have an enormous impact on your kids and the family structure that they will be surrounded by for love and support.

It's this love and support structure and your teachings of strong family values that will give them the tools they need as adults to be successful at balancing work and family in thier own lives.

They will have a stonger family and will be more successful parents.

A successful family/work life is dependent on finding the right balance, making the right choices and ensuring that you have the flexibility, systems and support to achieve the goals that you have set. It takes teamwork, perseverance and a lot of effort. Remember that you can anything but you just can't do EVERYTHING.

Please write a comment or send an email if you have questions or suggestions so we can make this post much more informative.

Thanks for reading and I hope you've learn something. Stay blessed!

How to Divide Your Time and Attention Between Your Children

For 4 years, my daughter was an only child. As parents, we could spend as much time with her as wanted. When my wife got pregnant and gave birth to our son the love and attention needed to be divided, things had to change.

Very quickly, we had to change our plan as parents and learn how to divide our time evenly between our children – children who had very contrasting demands. Now that our daughter is 10 and my son is going 7 I can still feel that their is a sibling rivalry for attention between our kids.

Here are some tips and tricks that we have picked up during our time as parents that will hopefully assist others, as well.

1. Understand their different needs

 My first piece of advice is to identify the different needs of your children. For example, my 10 year old daughter needs to feel grown up, wants to help her mother with the laundry and washing dishes at times. My son on the other hand wants to play, draw, and sometimes be just by himself watching tv or playing games on his tablet.

Even if your children are closer in age, they will still need different things and attentions from you. This makes it much easier to divide your time between them.

Where their needs are the same, spend time with them both in order to help them learn that they do have to ‘share’ you.

2. Teaming up with your better half


One of the best ways to divide your time is to work with your better half.

While you’re spending time with one of your kids, let your wife spend quality time with the other. By working as a team in this way, my wife and I have found that each child gets the attention they’re craving.

Parenting is all about teamwork so remember to back one another up, and make sure you’re playing for the same side. It can be very difficult pleasing everyone but by sharing the load when you can makes things easier for you both.

3. Enjoy one-on-one time


One of the biggest challenges I have found as a parent, is making time for one-on-one days or activities with my children which is I barely do. But when you can, this is one of the best ways to help divide your time between them.

For example: if my son is having his 'me time' playing his toys in our room or playing his favorite game in his tablet I try to convince him that I am also interested on what he's been doing and try yo bond with him as much as possible.

Then, when my daughter is alone watching movies, I’ll spend the same amount of time with her. I’ll help her with his homework or just simply talk to her about school, talk about her day, or spend half an hour or so doing something she wants to do. This helps them both spend time with me each day especially on weekends.

4. Foster independent time 

 It’s important that your kids learn to not be so dependent on you, and demand your attention and time 24/7. That’s why I would like to recommend encouraging your children to spend time on their own 'me time'. Whether they play with their toys, spend time together, or do some homework; it’s important they learn a little independence.

This will help you to spend time with your other child, but will also teach them that it’s okay not to have your undivided attention. For me and my wife though, my daughter is so happy to spend time at her grandparents house during weekends, so it’s hard to pencil in any one-on-one time!

5. Spend time as a family

My final advice is to not see parenting as a ‘one or the other’ type approach. You’re a family and should spend as much time together as you can whether it be evenings or days out, or just eating meals together. Being a multi-tasking parent is hard but it’s a rewarding job.

Do you have tips and advice on how you spend time with each of your children? I’d love to hear them and we can add it here in the future.