Find Work-Life Balance – The Struggle

In this episode, Priscilla shares her struggles with trying to balance her time between her career growth and motherhood. Chris advises her to adopt the technology of the new age and getting her to realize that the decisions that got her to where she's at today won't get her to the next big goal.

01:52 - Challenges that most adults have.
04:09 - How to reach your goal faster?
07:54 - How do you balance between work and family?
11:20 - The biggest problem people face with work life balance.
15:00 - The answer to have a life style business

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[kathrynhitchcock]

So many of us are out here trying to balance parenting and career goals. Thank you for this video.

[taridean]

This series, or should I say 'journey' you have started with Priscilla is absolutely amazing and I cant thank you guys at The Futur enough for doing this!!! These two episodes alone have helped so much in clearing the dust for me when it comes to planning the next move as a creative entrepreneur. I can totally relate to Priscilla when it comes to looking for that express train and no longer wanting to be on the multi-stop one. Anyway, I could go on all day. Thank you once again for doing this series and I will be tuning in for the next episode. Greetings from Warwickshire, UK.

[BrianHaferkamp]

This is a really important video. Thank you, Chris.

As a father, I watch my wife struggle through some of the questions of motherhood and work even though she spends a lot of time with our kids. As a father, I have fewer social expectations to give more time to kids and home. TBH, most people won't say anything if a father's scale tips to work and away from taking care of kids or family. It's not right but it seems a fair assessment of the attitudes of most cultures.

If your wife is still working I'd be interested in her take on working and motherhood. It might be very helpful in this coaching situation.

Thanks again for the great content.

[beMOTIONdESIGN]

"When we're supposed to be working, we're thinking about our family and when we're with our family we're worried about the work we haven't finished, and so we're not good to our work and we're not good to our family."

This is the hardest challenge!

[lalalapir-klein]

I have been looking for this kind of content. As a mother of young kids, I truly struggle with balancing it all. Thank you for this.

[naranjita]

I'm only seeing this video now as I've only recently discovered The Futur website and all of it's amazing resources. Alongside the Melinda Livsey series, I can't tell you how brilliant these have been. I can relate so much, particularly to the work-life-mothering balance. It's so so tough, and I'm so happy such a respected community is finally discussing it. Thank you.

[amyuskoski]

Keep this series coming, please! Sent our youngest of 8 to kindergarten this fall after 20+ years of FT parenting, a little design work from home, and a lot of learning. I’m stymied with all the opportunities but want to go all out with whatever I ultimately choose to focus on. I just need direction. Thanks so much!

[maeceseirafi]

Thank you for this content. I'm currently in that phase as well, a new mom to a 3-month old baby. One of the many reasons why I left the work force was because I wanted to establish my own practice for when I have a family and not to miss out on precious time. I have found that hiring a nanny for 6 hour days for half the week has worked well. I have also recruited family to help when I had to jump on a client call. I also work in between her naps to get work done.

[anthonyu]

Really needed to hear this today. I sincerely thank you Chris and company

[gerrelsaunders]

Interruption is the enemy of productivity. Big facts.

[irfana]

Just found out about this series. Totally can relate to Priscilla's position, thank you for this.

[junifertutavaha]

Great interview, thanks for your honesty Priscilla, Letting go of the past....to get to the lifestyle career we really want.

[TheLaPyae]

Love the way the chris do make the conversation !!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
More content like this plz.

[JohnBeatty]

I'm right there with this series... really hitting "home" with me!! Thank you!!

[ibrahimal-khalaf]

wow... WOW. Chris dropped a bomb on me with the diminishing returns reference. So much value in this, thanks so much Chris!!

[canteburysounds]

Thank you for the timestamps. I'm a father of two young kids and didn't have time for the whole video, lol.

[scaleded_it]

Thank you for this vid. It's taken me a long time to get my schedule and work/life balance down. But i have a routine everyday now. I also have to keep in mind that even small victories are still victories.

[jonathanlotriet]

Great content as always. As a (older, 40s) lone worker it seems there are a lot of very similar challenges facing designers who have worked as traditional graphic designers and need to move on. Thanks Chris and the team for helping give us a push in a forward direction.

[xvanegas]

This 19 min video literally took me an hour to watch because of my kids interruptions lol.

The statement on diminishing returns makes complete sense. I've come to realize this myself, I just didn't know there was a term for it.

Also Chris, those headphones look really comfortable.

[jenmallarapu]

I'd like to see more episodes with Priscilla 👍🏻