The Discovery

For the Nth time this year you are reminded that you have put off going to the doctor when something in your body doesn’t feel right. You have the insurance, and you know you work hard for it, but you cannot take advantage of it because you have used up so many of your allocated days on your kids and family, and you know taking any unpaid time off will cause a real problem a the office. Worse than this, you recall how over the holidays your little one had a cough that lasted 3 weeks and between the holiday preparations at home, and the end of the year deadlines at work, you just never got around to bringing her to the pediatrician.

Why do we do this to ourselves? It is insane to think that we devote 40+ hours a week to someplace we leak fuel to commute to, complete with a benefits package that somehow we never really benefit from.

Give Up the Sport of Success

It is high time you ask yourself the first vital question. Who told you that you have to be successful? Parents? School teachers? Your friends? As women we kill ourselves over a concept that in this culture has become like a sport. I believe there is a fundamental flaw in most of the self help and success material that now over saturates the bookstores and major media outlets.