If only there were 34 hours a day…

…Taking on entrepreneurship is what changes it to super-juggling. Entrepreneurship requires more hours then a day has to offer. I’m in a serious deficit.
Is this why there aren’t so many mother-entrepreneurs?

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Happy Birthday, Shaii!

It’s a special day today. It’s my oldest daughter’s 15th birthday. It’s on this day, 15 years ago, that I became a mom, and my husband became a dad, and together we officially became a family, family with child….
…it takes years to realize just how much a life changing event this is.
Beyond experiencing joy and pride over the little person emerging, an adult responsibility is revealed and takes over. A new grasp of reality is happening. My father’s stories, which he told us when we were kids, so full of humor and wit, about his childhood adventures in war struck Europe and all of his solo travels all done before he was 10 years old, suddenly took a turn. The full responsibility over the lives we have created is still not sinking in even 15 years later…

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Camping for success

I am now beginning to write the script for my venture’s demo. I have been writing so many documents, presentations, scripts, plans and specification for the past two months, and yet, it feels like the business isn’t moving. Nothing grand has happened.
Except for the global financial crisis.
This leads me to wonder not only of my [...]

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What will I be?

Last night my 6 year old son, Yonatan, made a dramatic announcement. “I decided I will not be a chef”, he said completely seriously, as seriously as he made the original announcement about a year ago. “But I am worried,” he added, “I don’t know what will I be when I grow up”.
I was amused, [...]

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The sequence: getting back to work

Getting back from a vacation when you are an independent consultant is something else. You pick up at your pace. Men have a different pace than women. In the women’s paces you need to count some family paces too. Meaning, a woman business owner is responsible for getting her whole family back on track. The [...]

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Third time first grader

About a month ago I took my youngest son, five years and a half, to register him to school. Come September this little child, with his wide round eyes and soft, long, golden curls, will enter the school gates for the first time as a student.
The boy, very happy and confident about it, is looking [...]

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In: dependant woman

If you are a woman, around 40, and god forbid you have a husband and kids – you can kiss the job hunt goodbye.
This is of course somewhat generalized. There are exceptions. However, I have found that out about 5 years ago, and I wasn’t even 38.
After several years of juggling between freelance and employee [...]

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