When your days are spent juggling the demands of work, family, friends, and home, it can be easy to forget how important downtime is.
But we know how important time to recharge is to your well-being, so how do uber-successful women make time for themselves? Their advice is something all of us can use.
They Schedule It
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Down time isn't going to happen if you don't carve out the time as sacred, says Glynnis MacNicol, co-founder of TheLi.st, a membership organization and information resource for influential women. She is also coauthor of The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Women. Whether it's Tuesday yoga class or a long weekend away with friends, it's blocked out on their calendars just as a board meeting or new business presentation would be.
"[Successful women], especially women with children, measure out their time the way one measure's out ingredients for a cake. Their lives are very structured and pegged to routine," says MacNicol.
They Focus on the Moment
To help them stay in the moment instead of thinking about work or the many other tasks they "should" be doing, successful women work hard to stay in the moment, says performance coach Casandra Henriquez, founder of coaching company Inspire Many. It's not easy, and few if any can do this perfectly, but it's an important skill that makes you better at whatever you're doing. If you're constantly focused elsewhere, it's not helping you and it's actually making you less effective at what you're doing, she says.
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