7 Simple Ways Working Parents Can Simultaneously Improve Their Careers, Their Families, and Themselves

There are three things that every working parent has in common: A lack of time; a feeling that we should be spending more time – at work, with our kids, at the gym, or engaged in any number of other important activities that get squeezed when we have too much to do; and an uneasy, guilty, powerless, nagging feeling about all of it. There’s a better way. We can’t add hours to the day, or shrink our to-do lists – but we can pick our spots. We can choose to do the things that powerfully and positively impact our careers, home lives and well-being in very little time. Think of these as Working Parent Power Moves – strategic time-saving and reputation-enhancing activities that take seven minutes or less, can be done completely on your own without any special resource or equipment, and – most importantly – provides disproportionate benefit to one or more of the core areas of your life: career, family, self.