The way you handle your kids could be the key to doubling your productivity/effectiveness at work.
2 years ago, we decided to run an experiment at home, to approach parenting like a business—scheduled tasks, clear goals, and regular feedback. Surprisingly, the structure not only made home life smoother, but it also trickled into our work habits. A few months later, we both were hitting deadlines faster and managing stress better. Teachers would told us the same thing about our children's school performance. After all, no one taught us to be organized when we were young, and that's what we've been doing with them for 2 years now.
Who knew learning to be a better parent would also make us better professionals and our children better students?
4 ways being a better parent will lead you to better performance at work
1️⃣ It creates a balanced approach between work and home: Having everything under one umbrella gives you a more global, transversal and holistic view of all areas of your life.
2️⃣ It teaches valuable organizational and focus management skills: When you focus on solving the problems in front of you in the most effective way possible, you transfer those practices to your work and give your children the opportunity you didn't have as a child.
3️⃣ It strengthens decision-making processes both at work and in parenting: You learn and repeatedly practice decision-making techniques that improve over time as your children absorb them like sponges.
4️⃣ It encourages self-awareness and emotional intelligence: The necessary collaboration, as a team, leads to being more aware of how you are/feel at every moment, while providing enough emotional intelligence so that all team members can feel equally good about their achievements and learn, also as a team, from the things that did not go so well.
If you want to boost your effectiveness at work, start by focusing on how you manage your home life. Parenting may just be the productivity hack you never saw coming.
The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. —Peggy O'Mara