Who are you?

Do you believe that “having it all” is a fallacy? Do you work full-time and enjoy it, but worry about the effect on your loved ones?    Or you have decided to stay at home, but at the expense of your personal aspirations? Maybe you love parenting but need to learn to find time for “you”. Or,  you may feel you’re not the best parent you can be, and want to do better.  You may even have a recurring battles with your partner about household chores, money, or parenting styles or techniques. Our parent services can help you make thoughtful progress whatever your personal situation.

What we offer?

Alignment:

Often as parents we lose sight of our personal goals for our children. Our goal is for you to realize more of them now versus waiting till the kids are in college.

• Personal assessment: Create and understand your personal mission, values, and core beliefs.

“ To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. “—Confucius

Balance:  It’s easy to compartmentalize our lives into work and home.  Learn to healthily manage competing interests, such as work and family and look at situations more holistically. 

• Define Life goals: What are your other life goals aside from family? Being healthy? Seeing friends? PUrsuing hobbies? How can you ensure they goals also get met?
• Work/life balance: What is the ideal balance between work and family for you and your spouse? What does a balanced life look lik
• Prioritization: What are “must haves” versus “like-to-haves” with respect to your family resonsibilities?  
• Tools/strategies: How do you know when you are out of balance? How can you restore balance? 

Clarity:  Most of us spend much of our time doing the “right” thing as a parent and spouse as defined by our culture, community, or family versus what we really want.   Start defining success on your own terms by defining what matters most to you.

• Parenting Goals:  What are your top three parenting goals? What are your top 3 family values? 
• Lifestyle assessment: How do you want to feel when you come home? What implications does it have for your domestic responsibilities? How do your expectations mesh with your partner's?  How do you negotiate the differences?
• Family Chores:  What constitutes an equitable distribution of chores, money, and personal time? How do our attitudes about about family chores or equitability affect our desire to do them? Are there creative ways to solve these issues and have fun as a family?
• Legacy: Is it important to you to leave a legacy? What do you want your legacy, to be and how can it guide your actions?

 “ Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush; anxious for greater developments and greater wishes and so on; so that children have very little time for their parents; Parents have very little time for each other; and the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”—Mother Teresa

Strike a balance that honors your personal commitments and your work commitments.  It's simple to get started.

C.J. Liu Work Life Coach