Marla Enhelder

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Working Mom Coach, Mentor & Consultant Expert

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Main Areas: Work Life Balance, Career Success, Stress Management, Time Management, Happiness, Emotional Intelligence, Empowering Women
Career Focus: Coach, Mentor, Consultant, Speaker

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How To Maintain Friendships When Time Is At A Premium

Have you ever noticed that some people make friends super easily; however, they don’t do much to keep the relationship going? Our girlfriends are a wellspring of support. You need them and they need you. However, if you are like most working moms the demands of life can creep up on you, and before you know it, your friends get shoved off the calendar. With motherhood, there are always a million things to do, minor emergencies to tend to, and challenges to face. It’s not always easy to find the energy or the time to invest in friends.

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Seven Strategies To Create The Best Year Of Your Life

In order to create the best year of your life, you must know the course you want to chart and the life you wish to live. Goal setting is an excellent way to start the path of life transformation. Unfortunately, however, the majority of people quit before successfully attaining their goals! Though they have the best of intentions they either fail to embrace to the right mindset or are simply unaware of how to correctly go about setting goals that will ensure successful completion.

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Create Internal Change And Live A Happier Working Mom Life In 4 Easy Steps

How is it that some working moms are happy regardless of their life circumstances while others are incessantly miserable though they appear to "have it all"? How you feel and the results you attain are attributable to the intentionality of your thoughts and your actions. Your level of joy, contentment, and well-being is the reality that you control and create by the thoughts you choose to embrace. In this article I will share 4 strategies that, if implemented, will have a profound impact on your level of happiness and will change your life for good.

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Expressing Gratitude Is More Than Saying Thank You

Gratitude is many things to many people. It is wonder; it is appreciation; it is looking at the bright side of things; it is abundance; it is thanking someone; it is “counting blessings.” It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present-oriented. The average person often associates gratitude with saying thank you for something they received or a kind gesture. However, gratitude is much broader. I invite you to consider its numerous benefits and how you can regularly incorporate the practice of gratitude in your life.

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Top 8 Options for Back-Up Care When Your Child is Sick

Imagine the following scenario, if you will. One hour after you arrive at work, your phone rings. The Caller ID reads, “YOUR CHILD’S DAYCARE/SCHOOL”. You already know what this means…your child has a temperature, is sick, and needs to be picked up ASAP. You have back-to-back meetings and conference calls all afte oon. You try to reach your husband to see if he can pick up your child; however, you just remember that he is tied up in an all-day workshop for work. Alas, you are forced to cancel your work obligations for the third time this month.

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5 Ways To Eliminate Working Mommy Guilt Forever

Working mommy guilt can be one of the biggest drawbacks to working outside of the home. However, I want to assure you that this does NOT have to be the case! In fact, guilt is completely unnecessary and a waste or your precious (and very limited) energy.

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Don't Manage Time, Manage Your Energy!

Working moms are pushing themselves harder than ever to be the best in all realms of their life, aiming for perfection in all that they do, taking on the brunt of the familial responsibilities, while not accepting help OR seeking reprieve. They are like a hamster caught in a wheel, going round and round and getting nowhere fast. This pace is absolutely exhausting and unrealistic to maintain for the long-term. There is likely a breakdown lurking right around the corner.

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Perfectionism is NOT Perfect

Perfectionism is so very prevalent for working moms. We struggle with the constant balancing act of juggling work and family - wanting to be supermoms at home while being at the top of our careers at the office. Sometimes we take pride in the fact that we are perfectionists and even tout it as one of our biggest strengths during job interviews.

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9 Sure Fire Ways To Make Business Trips Bearable For Mom And Her Family

During the first year of my child's life, I took a total of 11 trips for work. I will never forget the first time. I was so unbelievably sad for days prior to the trip and tried to think of any excuse for me not to get on that plane. Deep down; however, I knew I had to go. I was conce ed that my husband was going to have to take on additional responsibility and tasks he normally did not undertake. He reassured me that everything would be fine. You know what? He was right.

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Balance: Is It Possible For Working Moms Or Just Ballerinas?

It has long been argued that balance is indeed attainable and something for which to strive. What do you think? I believe that it is all in the perspective you take, the values that you hold dear to your heart, and the choices that move you toward what makes you feel content and fulfilled. Life balance is as individual as you are. Ultimately it is the balance between how much time you spend in each category of your life that feels "right" for you. That ideal balance means different things to different people.

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Four Simple Strategies To Proactively Minimize Working Mom Stress

It is a fact; stress is a part of our lives and contributes to 90% of all illness. And, unfortunately, working moms tend to experience it more often and from my many different angles. They feel stressed when they wake up a they are scurrying around, trying to get as much done as they can before leaving for work. They are stressed at work with never enough time to accomplish all that they had intended for the day.

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Is That A Stranger In Your Bed Or Is That Your Husband?

Do you sometimes feel like you are sleeping next to a roommate that you hardly know anymore rather than the love of your life? Did you know that 66% of working moms say that their marriage has taken a backseat after their baby was born? Do you find that to be true for you? If so, you are not alone. Many of my coaching clients express to me that since baby, their marriage is suffering.

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