Creating Your Life Collage: Strategies for Solving the Work/Life Dilemma

Are you a woman who feels overworked and overwhelmed, burned out and out of shape? As if your life has become one dimension -- work?  Have hobbies and community activities fallen by the wayside? Based on the authors' own experiences and those of nearly 1,000 other women, Creating Your Life Collage is the first book to offer real solutions to these problems that are plaguing working women today.

Combining useful exercises with the inspiring stories of women who made significant changes in their lives, Creating Your Life Collage empowers the reader to design the solution to her work/life dilemma that works best for her -- whether it's how to better manage a full-time job, go part-time, become an entrepreneur, or take advantage of other creative and profitable alternatives to the daily grind. Speaking to all women, single and married, with and without children, Creating Your Life Collage helps women take control of their lives and arrange life's varied elements in just the right way -- creating a life collage.

Women who want to create satisfying, financially rewarding careers that are not all consuming -- leaving time for family, friends, spirituality, community, hobbies, and just plain fun -- will find inspiration, practical help, and realistic advice in Creating Your Life Collage.

Kathy McDonald and Beth Sirull both had successful corporate marketing careers before leaving to launch their own businesses. The authors have used many of the solutions they write about to create their own life collages, composed of various professional, volunteer, and personal pursuits. Both women live in the Chicago area with their husbands and children.