What's Your Lane?: Career clarity for moms who want to work a little, a lot or not at all

by Brenda F. Abdilla

Overview

If you're like most moms, you made your decision about parenting, work, and schedule mindfully and with the purest of intentions. Now you feel like you are doing it all wrong - feel confused and guilty and need some directional guidance.
What's Your Lane is a must read if:

•You are considering any change in your career status like re-entering the work force, moving to part-time, working from home, staying home full-time or working full- time outside the home.
•You feel stuck with your current circumstances,
career-wise, and secretly wish you had chosen differently.
•You feel guilty, overwhelmed or stressed-out in your current lane and you long for strategies to feel good right where you are.
•You need a quick and easy assessment of who's doing what around the house (Division of Labor Assessment included).
•You are ready for a constructive way to air your grievances and deal with stress (Going to the Ugly Exercise included).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481904513
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	04/09/2013
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Brenda Abdilla is the founder of Management Momentum LLC and a PCC level Professional Certified Coach, a distinction shared by less than 35% of all coaches worldwide. Through coaching, workshops, programs and assessments, Brenda helps men and women all over the world confidently choose the path that's right for them.

As a wife, mother and business owner, Brenda understands the temptation to dutifully don the superwoman cape and try to be all things to all people. Her message to women is this: Relax. Take a closer look. You're too hard on yourself. Question everything you're supposed to do, choose your lane, roll down the windows and enjoy the ride.

Editorial Reviews

2013-09-01
A work of nonfiction by a certified career coach designed to help mothers decide which post-baby career path is right for them. Abdilla identifies seven career lanes ranging from forgoing income and staying home with the kids to continuing to work full time and arranging for child care. Her tone is both warm and no-nonsense, and reading her advice feels like listening to a trusted friend who just happens to have a leg up on life experience. While she immediately comes across as an authority on juggling motherhood and career management, she's also refreshingly realistic, admitting in her introduction, "We all screw ourselves in one way or another when it comes to our set up at home and our careers." Her detailed descriptions of the pros and cons of each "lane" bring into relief common-sense arguments that might not be apparent to emotional and overwhelmed parents-to-be. In the chapter titled "The Slow Lane," Abdilla notes that although working reduced hours might seem like the ideal solution for a career-minded mom, "You might condense a full-time job into less pay and have fewer hours to accomplish it." While the specificity of the scenarios Abdilla outlines allows parents to decide which lane is best for them, it also means that readers will be able to skip inapplicable sections. There's enough general information, however, to make the whole book a worthwhile read for most new parents. Interactive exercises are helpful and straightforward; some include sample answers to guide readers in completing them. Abdilla also offers information about her own past to help readers see how a person's history influences his or her parenting style. A chapter about dividing household chores in a way that feels fair to both parents could be useful for any couple. Most parents could benefit from reading this smart, insightful guide about the realities of creating a work/life balance.

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