The biggest challenge any organization faces from time to time is to ensure constant level of productivity from its employees throughout the year. However for every employee the level of motivation varies from their hierarchy and from hour to hour forget about the year.
Shifting focus to our homes on to the homemakers or the working mothers, we do not find any major fluctuations into their level of commitment and productivity. Everyone has a mother at home or a wife for some, who handles the entire home related problems single handedly in most of the cases.
Everyone knows that mother and mental strength go hand in hand. But more often we forget that in the end, even she is a human being. She too has a limit to handle mental pressures around her. Among mother’s day gifts just add one more thing to make her feel a bit better, which is a little bit of understanding and care to showcase.
Growing children are always mother’s biggest challenge and in their life’s journey in the highway of life they need expert guidance from parents. Mother’s are the go to and feel good factor for every child no matter how old he/she has grown.
The daily routine starts from the early morning with preparations for breakfast, Tiffin and getting everyone ready on time. These are some of the biggest challenges that a mother faces on day to day basis without any complain. Working mothers have a daunting task at hand to strike a right balance between professional and personal lives.
On the mother’s day we have brought some tips for all the mothers, especial focus on working mothers on how to balance the work, kids and maintain the mental strength:
- Prepare Your Schedule And Manage Time- Time is the most critical substance at hand which never comes back and needs to be planned in a proper way. This will vary from a nuclear family to a joint family. Modern society is witnessing wider roles for mothers with add-on responsibilities on to their shoulders. Free availability of uncensored information requires constant monitoring and one on one talk with the children to save them from any wrong involvements. If you are working you need to schedule your time in such a way that you have not missed a point and are fresh even after constant work. A well winded time will ensure less physical and mental fatigue. It will also give you some time for yourself to replenish the thought process.
- Eat Good To Build Immunity- Enough can be talked about the mental strength and mother but unhealthy mother means the family will suffer. Working women are exposed to lots of pollution and prospective antigens while travelling and meeting people. They need to eat good food to build their immunity to help develop resistance to any diseases. Also, a healthy mother can easily handle any family situation that may arise. Include fruits, vegetables, fibres, milk and juices into diet to help your body recover fast.
- Exercise And Stay Fit- Gifts have a positive mental influence especially among the ladies. As the mother’s day gifts include a yoga class course for self or join the local fitness club to keep self physically fit. Just take 30 minutes walk in the park daily which will give you ample exposure to nature and oxygen to boost your fitness level. A fit and healthy body means a happy mind.
- Creating Happy Environment- A good mental health is very closely related to the degree of happiness in relations and environment you live in. Outing with the family every weekends or at least once in a month with lots of images helps create happy memories. Also, activities like family games, singing together, shopping and watching movie together are some of the bond building methods which create a happy living environment. In office speaking to the positive people enhances the mental level and keeps you focus on important matters.
- Find Your Emotional Sink- Women are bound to emotions more strongly than men. And more often they need to let the negative emotions out otherwise it interferes in their work. Friends are the best buffers for any negative emotions, however many a times they are not available on time due to their own life. One should remember that negative emotions are nothing but negative energy which needs to be properly channelized in order to neutralize its effect. The best ways are to start a new creative hobby this could be anything other than what you do in routine work. It can be drawing, sketching, photography, dancing, singing, and gardening or even visiting a park every now and then gives a clearer perspective. All these activities along with talking to anyone like husband, in-Laws, parents, friends or even children if they are grown up enough to understand.
Conclusion: At time when mother stops us from doing anything each one of us in our life has interrupted her with an argument that I am mature enough and know what is right. In doing so we forget that again when time comes to show that real maturity we prefer to show our naïve side. Mother needs to be always on the alert. She cannot afford to make a mistake on any front of her life starting from office if she is working to the home where it’s not about profit but about being together. All these add up to the physical and critically to a higher level of mental pressure. So this mother’s day, don’t just wish her happy mother’s day but make each day mother’s day. It is a time that each one of us realize that we are mature enough and sit alongside our mother to tell her no matter what the situation be we love her. And when the problems come we will be together to handle them.
And ladies you can always feel proud of what you have been constantly achieving with the resources at hand. The best technique to stay happy and mentally strong is to build in the positive mindset system. Never allow any negativity to influence your mind. Your positivity helps people around you to be positive which comes reciprocating back to you. So keep up the good positive vibes.
By Manoj Kumar Singh(Trustee & National President, Power In Me Foundation)