by Lori Mihalich-Levin | May 14, 2022 | Time Management, Working Dad, Working Mom
Sometimes, when I’m in a parenting funk, or a downward mental spiral, simply taking a few minutes to listen to someone else’s thoughts gets me out of my own head. Do your own circular thought patterns ever get you bogged down? Does your to-do list sometimes run amok...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Mar 26, 2022 | Time Management, Working Dad, Working Mom
How are your boundaries between work and life doing these days? Did they vanish like the morning mist when Covid struck? Or perhaps when your baby arrived on the scene? This topic certainly isn’t new to the Mindful Return blog (see A Working Parent’s...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | May 8, 2021 | Mindfulness, Time Management, Working Mom
What does a for-real, warts-and-all, workday look like for me? I get the question all the time: how do you actually do it? Run a business, practice law, and be mama to two active boys. In honor of Mother’s Day 2021 (and in honor of this being my 300th Mindful...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Dec 12, 2020 | Time Management, Working Dad, Working Mom
My husband, Jason Levin, and I truly love our annual planning days. We dream about them in advance, gleefully arrange childcare, map out where we’re going to meet, and then relish the event itself. I’ve written about them here before and shared our agendas,...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Dec 5, 2020 | Time Management
Ah, the time management struggle. Do you ever find yourself looking at a working parent and saying, “wow, how do they DO all that?” Today, I’m thrilled to invite one of these inspiring mamas to the blog, to explain how she thinks about managing her own time. ...
by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Oct 3, 2020 | Time Management
If I’m being honest, I can admit that shutting down at night has been a perennial challenge for me. Not just a COVID-related struggle. The recovering perfectionist in me has trouble with loose ends. Un-finished to-do lists. And things out of my control. I got...
