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How To De-Stress At Work: 7 Ideas That Really Help Stressed Working Mums!

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Tweet One of the hardest things for most people at work (not just working mums!) is learning how to de-stress when the pressure is on. If you don’t actively practice a few techniques on how to de-stress, you think less clearly. Which means you make poor decisions, which in turn means your performance dips and  Continue Reading…

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Top Tips for Working Mums to Thrive This Christmas

Tweet There are so many “Tips for Surviving Christmas” in women’s magazines, but when I read things like “two weeks before Christmas – now is the time to ice your Christmas Cake” and “shed half a stone before Christmas” I don’t get the feeling that these tips really help many mums feel less anxious about  Continue Reading…

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How to Survive Christmas End of Term Madness for Working Mothers

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Tweet If, like me, you’re a working mom you’re probably actively into the run up to the end of term and Christmas. As all working mothers know, the Christmas countdown for us starts much earlier than December. Working mums need help NOW! If you’re like me, by now you have probably: Started or even finished  Continue Reading…

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Working Motherhood without Tears: 5 Ways to Handle it All

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Tweet You’re not going to avoid the inevitable tantrums from the kids, but, as a working mum, you can still prevent the flow of frustrated tears from your own tired eyes.  If you’re still feeling a bit overwhelmed, here are some coping tips, and some tips to help you simplify things in your life so  Continue Reading…

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Working Mum and the Art of Self Belief: 5 Sure-fire Ways to Start Believing in Yourself Today

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Tweet There are many reasons why a working mum’s confidence may need an extra boost.  Whether the lack of self-belief stems from an extended absence from the work place or the fact that work can no longer be the sole focus at every given moment, working mums can find some sure fire ways to kick  Continue Reading…

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Successful Working Mums: Five Tips for Dealing with Difficult People at Work

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Tweet As a working Mum, the hope is that work runs as smoothly as it can, enabling as much productivity in the efficiently managed schedule as possible.  Things rarely go to plan, however, and, just as the blocked sink, stomach bugs and broken appliances at home contrive to complicate domestic life, so too will difficult  Continue Reading…

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How NOT to be Cinderella as a Working Mum: How to get your Other Half to Share Domestic Chores

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Tweet Juggling the housework alongside the children and a job is not an easy feat for working mums. Follow these five great tips to make sure you ditch the Cinderella rags and put on your glass slippers (well, at least once in a while)! 1. Communicate cause and effect. In order to really see a  Continue Reading…

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Successful Working Mums: The Importance of Having a Mentor as a Professional Working Mum

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Tweet The definition of a mentor is a wise and trusted adviser or guide and every working mother should have one. One of the many potential consequences of returning to work as a mother is the onset of parochialism within the working environment.  This is especially the case if the hours of the working week  Continue Reading…

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Ten Top Tips for Managing Work Travel as a Working Mother

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Tweet Being a working mum is a challenge in itself, but introducing travel as part of the working package can really strain the work/life/family balance.  Here are a few top tips to manage the travel aspect of work. Have a bag pre packed. Instead of packing every time you travel, emptying the contents of your  Continue Reading…

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Five Coping Tips for Working Mums

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Tweet Let me give you a picture of my September…  You know what it’s like when you come back from holiday and you’d managed to do the bare minimum in order to get away and ensure you didn’t come back to chaos? Then you come back to a zillion emails and actions and projects and  Continue Reading…

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