You may want to stay at home but you can’t. Joining the work force has its benefits, for one you will have money. When you work you also have the responsibility of keeping up the home and everything that goes with it. Your spouse may help you do that but you still need to make sure that it gets done. Without you overseeing the final projects at night things may go without being done.

Work
Women take jobs for several reasons. Some reasons a woman works may be

-          to contribute to the household income in order to afford everything they want and need

-          may be separated or divorced

-          Their spouse was hurt or temporarily unemployed

-          So you don’t let all those years in college become wasted

With your job comes the responsibility that you are given with your new position.  This sometimes causes added stress in your life and you may find it hard to concentrate on your work for thinking about things that you need to do at home and also while you are at home you may think about all the things you need to do at work. This added stress is not good and can lead to side affects such as headaches, frustration, or eventually feeling run down.

Home
When you think about home, you probably think about putting your feet up and dressing down into your comfortable outfits to relax and unwind.  If you don’t have your home life organized it may cause the feeling of being overwhelmed and unable to get anything accomplished. You may need to prepare breakfast before you leave, or you may need to pack lunches and when you get home you need to fix a dinner for everyone.  Plus you need to do laundry, vacuum up a mess in the floor or come up with a great science project and whatever your kids ask of you. This can become very stressful when it hits you as soon as you walk in the front door.

Learn to Balance
You need to find some way of balancing your life.  This may require you to put everything you need to do on a schedule. Your schedule should consist of the times you need to do things and how much time you can spend doing it. Although it may seem a bit too much to put your home life on a schedule you will appreciate it in the evenings when you finally have time to relax and unwind. Plus the weekends will be free to do whatever you need to do at your own pace.  Maybe you can even help prepare for the upcoming week.  The weekends are also your time to feel renewed and refreshed to start the new week. Make sure that you don’t wear yourself too thin preparing for the next week or trying to get caught up from the past week. You make life easier on yourself when everything you go to do has a plan. Your family and your work will fall into place.

For more instructions on living a balanced life read these articles on autogenic training and easy meditation techniques.

Do your hands sweat when you stand up in front of people to talk to them? Do you feel like there are a thousand butterflies in your stomach and every thing that you have worked hard to learn has just disappeared from your memory.

Speaking in public can give jitters to anyone who is doing it for the first time. But it is essential to hone up these skills as you may be required to do so at some point of your life. One can easily work to overcome the fear of public speaking and can speak with confidence in any given situation.  Public speaking is something that we normally do at least one time in our lives, even if it is in school. If you are a parent you would be amazed at how many times you will stand up to speak in public. Some people are comfortable with it while others dread it. Here are some ways to make public speaking easier for you.

Time it out. Be it a simple office presentation or a debate or group discussion, it is essential that you time your speech. No one wants to listen to long and boring stuff that keeps going on for what looks like hours. Longer speech also means that your audience may lose interest quickly and your efforts would be worthless. But this does not mean that to keep it within a time, you rush on with your speech. Public speaking is effective when done at an easy pace and in a coherent manner.

Keep it to the point. To make a truly effective speech, do not include worthless information. It would not only make the presentation unnecessarily long, but the focus of the discussion will also be lost. Also, prepare the speech keeping the audience in mind. An office presentation may include a lot of corporate lingo, but the same might not be appropriate for a general audience.

Breaking your speech in smaller chunks is another way of refining the presentation. Use subtitles and smaller phrases wherever possible. This way, not only will you be able to remember many of the points, but your presentation would look more organized. An effective introduction and a good closing statement is must for every discussion.

Always maintain an eye contact. Many people lose out on the opportunity of “communicating” with their audience; they keep on reading papers. Maintaining eye contact at various levels shows that you are thoroughly prepared and it gives an aura of confidence. Include some anecdotes and involve your audience by asking questions. This is particularly helpful when the topic is a complex one. It ensures that you are making your audience understand your points. You can also use Audio-visual material to make your speech more interesting and easy to understand.

Confidence is important for every public speaking activity. If it is your first time or you are nervous, you can practice speaking in front of your mirror. This way you would be able to improve upon any section that needs specific attention. So speak with confidence.

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