Ohhh… boyyy—yyyy, there are some career women you will encounter, you will swear as a woman not to work or ever do any business in your entire life( ofcourse you must have a financial powerhouse backing you up if you decide not to work huh?) I guess what am gonna talk about today is one of reasons why most men do not enjoy having their wives develop a career. There are career women that forget everything about their body, emotions, marital duties and all they do is chase after big bucks. Before i continue, let me also make it clear here that most of the women who fall under this category, are doing this just to keep up the family financial demands….probably, their husband is not meeting up financially so, they took it upon themselves to assist him(which is very noble of such women).
In the process of building up a career, other social aspects of their lives turns sour…stale….or even die completely!!!! This is pretty awful….if you ask me! Life is so short so, anyone working so hard in this planet earth and making plenty of cash should be kind enough to herself to enjoy it. Isn’t this the only thing you enjoy in life? Taking good care of yourself as much as you can and those around you as well. If you keep piling money and negelcting treating your self well and having some good living, one day you die…that ends your circle on earth!!!
Most career/business women reading this talk today already know what makes them lose steam in their pursuit of good career/business growth. They know but the thing is, some keep delaying slowing down and keep making unrealistic plans when they can start taking care of themselves but never get to do it. Meanwhile time keeps flying, they keep ageing, the world and business economy keeps changing faster and faster and such women favorite slogan is…’’i will…i will…’’.
I will make out more time for my hubby/kids……i will start eating healthy….i will register in a gym next month…..i will get some facials this weekend…..i will go for a vacation this year…..the list of all the –‘’i will..’’ that never happened are endless and every new year such women look at themselves in the mirror and they see a total stranger staring back.
This procastination game gets to a stage that such women even start failing in their career due to exhaustion….burn-out! They simply burn out in the process of pursuing their career. This is because, what you think is in vogue today careerwise suddenly changes into more sophiscated variable/venture and the more you delve into your career to be on top, the more sophiscated the career world becomes. You meet different clients with different attitudes/plans, initiative/business blue prints/elephant projects, political nonesence, security challenges, government chess games with us etc…and as you are trying to follow, manage all the happenings in your business community/environment, your entire body system, life style are also changing in their own ways. Funny enough…bodily changes needs no one’s permission to change either for good or bad. Whether you like it or not, every year, your body changes depending on how you manage it. So now, if you do not have a powerful energy to combine taking care of yourself and career, you will become a career..eeemmmm..let me see a brutal word to use… oookk…..a ‘career junkie’…..sorry ladies..i feel awful using this ‘junkie’ word but i cannot think of something better to describe what i am talking about today. I also slip into this career junkie lane any time i derail and let my self loose… so this is not just about you only ……just being REAL here ladies….Real life gist!!!! My only escape is due to my BODYIMAGE coaching job so, any time i see the red flag, i will kick my self awake and tackle it as fast as it wants to attack me. In this part of the world we are living, maintaining a healthy bodyimage as a career person is not a tea party….absolutely not..so let us face this hard fact!! I am facing mine by having the boldness to expose it here..LOL!!!!!!
Take for instance when i have series of early morning conferences outside Abuja for consecutively two weeks…boyyyyyyy….if i am unlucky the hotel venue where we hold the conference is lousy in their food/beverage department, i am jinxed in my diet lane…it will be all about eating and drinking junks. After the two weeks, my stomach will be playing football with my entire body till i take time out to DETOX and flush out all the junks i ate for the two weeks the conference was on. See my drift ladies? This happened because, i leave very early in the morning with only swallowing a cup of either black coffee/tea and no time for a healthy breakfast(though am not fanatical about heavy breakfast though..) Now, since i co-ordinate the entire conference, my lunch will be converted into dinner…(i always ask myself where i get all the energy to be running around/talking…making sure things are in order till i finally close around 5pm …spend endless hours in a crippling traffic and then, dinner ….honestly…i do wonder…) so you see how my job is taking a toll on my body. If there are women whose regular job style looks like this week after week, what do you think they will look like? During one of my women wellness coaching class, i brought up this time/diet crashing stuff and one woman cried all through the class. She has tried to manage these two but failed woefully. She is presently on planned regimen and doing pretty cool!!
How about sleep deprivation? Men married to very top career women will explain this better to you. If she has her own seperate bedroom…you are jinxed!! C’mon guys, the woman after all the hassles at work place is exhausted and just want to grab some few hours sleep before waking up 4am to prepare a presentation for clients coming for a crucial meeting the following day. The worst part is that, the lack of sleep also affects her beauty making her look like a drag with puffy eyes.
Getting a good sleep is one way to rejuvenate our body and every working woman should try as much as possible to get good nite sleep. Sleep nourishes the body and boost energy. So try and manage this area very well or you will crash in the middle of a presentation/meeting on ugly day!! Hubby, insist you have a weekend steal-away for both of you(only) twice in a month if you want to keep your wife. Make sure the hotel has a good spa/gym and swimming pool for you guys to unwind. I personally feel career women must have the best in life since they work so hard. Don’t allow your groove to die!!
JACLYN IWU
