Balancing Work and Family: Self-Care Strategies for Creative Businesses

As I write this post, my debut picture book, <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/navina-chhabria/raagas-song/9780762482245/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Raaga’s Song, A Diwali Story</a>, released today and I am alone with my one year old as his papa travels for business. It is overwhelming. In between performing work tasks and feeding/changing/playing with the (very active) baby, I am stretched incredibly thin. Hush! Do you hear the toilet flush? Because any semblance of a work life balance is down it. Despite everything, I am recruiting a few strategies to not go completely loony-bin-put-me-in-a-padded room nuts. <h1>Prioritizing and Delegating Tasks</h1> One of the things that has kept me sane is prioritizing tasks the night before. I knew the night before the book hit the shelves, what to expect, where the marketing is and how the book release is getting shared on social media. I also knew the parties I had to followup with before my head hit the pillow. So as soon as I got up and got done with the morning routine with the baby, I could bang out the tasks as soon as his babysitter arrived. I focused on the high-level tasks that required my personal attention and delegated the other tasks (dishes, laundry etc.) to the nanny. <a href="https://navinachhabria.medium.com/balancing-work-and-family-self-care-strategies-for-creative-businesses-cc8dc4df65f6">Read More</a>