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Balance

So the (only) slide I had in my coaching session had 3 bubbles where one needs to reach balance - personal fitness, job fitness and career fitness. The coach says women tend to focus on job fitness - focus on getting the job done, try to spend time with family - mostly insufficient for personal fitness, and not really focus on career fitness. I see why but the one that I find might need to be multiple bubbles is personal fitness - I think she kind of panicked when I told her that my personal fitness included at least 2 hours per day of charity work and that i was looking into one hour on saturday mornings to go to the gym amd try to be (more) fit in the real sense of the word. She was relieved to find out I function relatively ok without sleep but I do wondered what she would think about Law 4 All, my obsession with setting up something and my inner desire to write a book. At least she agrees women can't have it all. I agree that people can't have it all in general. My life was

Learning how to go back to work

I am now learning how to get back to work after C. As in, someone is trying to teach me how. Really. There is coaching on this. And it seems like I need it. Even E rolled her eyes when I told her. Yes, really. It must be because women are not good at it. My first question to the coach was whether managers got coaching too. Apparently there is coaching for that too. A friend of mine is about to return to work after a year and her boss went and got training as she was the first women in the department to ever have a baby. Really? Yes really. It is funny, there were times when this blog would be all about travelling and parties, those were my MBA times. The it was all about A Little Gesture, when you don't really write about your day life anymore because i) it is confidential and ii) people probably don't want to read about it. And then it was a lot about C's upcoming arrival and then radio silence. I wonder if now all will be about going back to work. I never thought I would