Claire believes that stories can be used to turn pain into power by inspiring, motivating and connecting us with others. She also believes that the most important thing you, as a working mom, can do is to learn to be kind to yourself.
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You won’t find time for important things. You’ll need to make it.
In his lecture on Time Management at Carnegie Mellon, Professor Randy Pausch made the point that “you don’t find time for important things… you make it.” He recommended that you identify your own personal creative time and defend it ruthlessly. You can watch the full hour long lecture here. For working moms, that could mean […]
You don’t have to do it all
65% of us are somewhat or very likely to swear at something in the morning. You are not alone… and you don’t have to do it all. I once interviewed one hundred mothers from seventeen countries around the world. The one thing they had in common was that they believed everyone else had it together and […]
The myth of multitasking
As women, we’re often told that we are great at multitasking. But is this really a good thing? Multitasking is not what we may believe it is. But why? We’re not actually doing several tasks at the same time. We’re actually switch tasking rather than multitasking. Each time we switch between tasks we are losing time as […]
Seasonal Purpose
I once had the wonderful privilege of interviewing more than one hundred working mothers from seventeen countries around the world. I discovered that it doesn’t matter what background, culture, history or baggage we may or may not carry with us based on what our parents told us was or was not appropriate. As working moms, […]