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Rule 3: Stand Up Straight

Regan MacPherson is a single mom of aIf we are lucky, we have a few hours a week
wonderful daughter, a pug and a cat, and is ato exercise, read a good book or visit with
full-time corporate attorney for a storagebeloved girlfriends. There is usually a
technology company in Silicon Valley. Thesacrifice at work or at home that must be
other morning I was dressing for work,made to eke out those hours from our
feeding the dog, doing laundry and making myschedule. If we are not careful, the physical
daughter's lunch. I leaned down to put on aand mental burdens that we carry every day,
pair of heels and felt a sharp ache in myeven though they bring us joy and
back. The advice of my granny, who, while Isatisfaction, pile up, and we find ourselves
was growing up, would frequently come upshrinking, slouching, hurting, ducking our
behind me, smack me between the shoulderheads and not making eye contact with other
blades and issue the stern command "stand uphumans. Working moms, I am virtually smacking
straight!" reverberated loudly in my head. Iyou between the shoulder blades! Stand Up
straightened up, put my shoulders back andStraight! Good posture is an important step
took a deep breath. I opted that day for ain balancing the burdens of life! Good
pair of flats. By paying attention to myposture makes us look and feel healthy,
posture that day, by the next, I was back inempowered and in control. Standing tall makes
the proverbial saddle. As working moms, weus feel tall, and if we feel tall, we are
carry many loads, both literally andtall! Straightening up and throwing back our
figuratively. We lug around our babies, ourshoulders brings about an almost
toddlers, and sometimes even our school-agedinstantaneous attitude adjustment and makes
kids. We carry groceries and load after loadothers perceive us as larger than life. Good
of laundry; we mop floors and scrub toilets;posture reduces strain on our muscles and
and cook gourmet meals. We take care of ourspine, helps maximize energy and vitality,
kids when they are sick or heartsick, boredand helps prevent health issues as we age.
or delighted. We care for the family pets andAnd last, but certainly not least, another
often for a spouse or elderly parent. We keeptrue benefit to good posture is that it makes
family relations intact with our own siblingsour clothes look better and makes it more
and parents, and sometimes our in-laws. Ascomfortable to wear killer shoes! I find that
employees, we carry a different load. We lugif I take a moment, straighten up, throw my
our laptops and other work-related items backshoulders back and take a deep breath, the
and forth between meetings. We manageburdens feel lighter, my body feels and looks
relationships with our bosses, employees andbetter, and my attitude is transformed.
co-workers. We carry the emotional weight ofThanks Granny. As excerpted from "42 Rules
financially supporting a family. At the endfor  Working  Moms"  Super  Star Press, 2008.
of the day, after helping the kids with
homework, dinner, teeth brushing, stories,Laura Lowell is the executive editor and
kisses, excuses and finally sleep, we log inauthor of "42 Rules for Working Moms." She
again, to check email and catch up on work Ashas gathered practical advice and information
working moms, we take on multiple programsfrom working moms all over the world to share
and problems, from volunteering at school andwith others. She lives and works in Silicon
driving on field trips to running meetingsValley with her husband and two girls.
and managing multi-million dollar projects.



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