Family Management: Everyday Joys

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business/management, Human, Business/careers, Women, Careers, Hbr, Resources, Workplace, Gender, Business, Business/entrepreneurship, Harvard, Progress, Equality

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🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Everyday joys can boost our energy and productivity, so long as we’re able to notice and appreciate them. Kevin reflects on the presence of joy in his life and what keeps him from feeling it. Then, leadership development coach Amy Jen Su gives advice for getting into a mindset that primes us to experience joy and function better all around.

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0:25.0	What?
0:30.0	Do you defend me?
0:33.0	Before I had kids, I knew that becoming a parent would be the hardest thing I would ever do.
0:39.0	But I was okay with that.
0:41.0	Why?
0:42.0	Because I thought I'd feel far more joy than anguish.
0:46.0	Sadly, that wasn't the case.
0:49.0	To be honest, I rarely felt joy my first two years as a parent.
0:53.0	My daughter, Maisie, suffered from colic, an acid reflux,
0:57.0	and had a general bad attitude about sleep.
1:00.0	She hated sleep.
1:02.0	On good days, she was extremely irritable.
1:05.0	On bad days, she was downright inconsolable.
1:08.0	One time, on a six-hour car ride, she screamed the entire time.
1:13.0	And this wasn't an anomaly.
1:18.0	This was our life.
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