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We are delighted to celebrate the start of the year with the launch of the
Life Work Balance Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs & Business Owners
White Paper

Discover the strategies successful business women follow to achieve life work balance.

Enjoy the practical insights offered by business women around the world to help you enjoy more balance in your life.

Ban the Balance ?  How could we call for Banning Life Work Balance ?

It’s out! The e-White Paper—Life Work Balance Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs & Business Owners—is now available free.

The paper is the culmination of the international NewNorma.com survey plus in-depth interviews with successful business women who reported they had achieved the often-elusive ‘balance’.

One of the biggest findings led us to call for Banning the Balance! Yes, and that’s despite us being champions of life work balance! We learned that yet again, the words we use interfere with our success in life. For decades many women campaigned for the use of gender neutral words and we found this affected how we saw life. So what should replace this? Read the paper and let us know.

It’s good to discover we are not alone in some of our struggles! We believe many women will relate to the comments you’ll read in the paper where women have generously and thoughtfully answered questions to help us all in pursuit of improving our lives and those of our families.

You will read different viewpoints on questions as basic as what life work balance means to more complex questions on what is important in life.

You will also find out answers to our questions:  Do business plans help? What difference do the men in your life make?

Motherhood & Guilt

Predictably, family commitments—mainly motherhood—was central to these respondents. As we know, many women start businesses purely to regain some ‘balance’ in their lives.  But is this really possible?  Read the paper to find out what the business women interviewed discovered.

What was more surprising to us—and in retrospect should not have been surprising—was the number of times the word guilt was used by women as really impacting the enjoyment of their lives.

This finding really fired us up. We decided we needed to find a way to help other business women with children who were experiencing guilt. This led to us  to launch  www.GuiltFreeBusinessMothers.com which offers a raft of international experts giving their advice and secrets on  topics fundamental to our success as business mothers, including  relationships, child-rearing and fitness to marketing, planning and other business topics. It’s free so check it out.

Strategies for Success

We didn’t find a magic bullet to deliver work life balance but we did come up with useful strategies from our depth interviews.  Check out these 11 points and we trust you’ll find something to help improve your life.

We certainly hope so—and would love to hear your thoughts.

‘Managerial excellence is correlated with external commitment, that is, better managers are more involved in activities outside of work.’ (Heffernan, M, 2007)  Time off and family are helping women business leaders stay the course.

‘It is not in excluding life but in embracing it that we find strength.’

(Heffernan, M, 2007)