There are school rings, engagement rings, wedding rings, friendship rings and mothers rings (usually birthstones of her children set on a band. The price range of rings can be anywhere from fifty cents (usually found in toy machines you see in stores) to thousands of dollars and more or even higher.

Mothers bring exceptional skills and experience to workplace. Mothers are far more qualified and far more valuable producers than they, or business world realizes. The skills, experience, knowledge, sense of responsibility, wisdom, patience, leadership, organizational capabilities, resourcefulness, human relationship capabilities, and other real life skills that mothers developed over years of motherhood are extremely valuable to people who recognize their true worth.

If you are a mother at this stage in life…

You will want to fill void with another supportive profession. You will always be a mother to your children. However, you will experience a void when your children begin to leave home. You will eventually want (and most often need) to fill this void with another career or work position. At some point in time, you will want to convert your experience, your energies, your need for achievement, your need for involvement, your passions, and your knowledge that was fulfilled through full-time motherhood into something else. You will want to discover and operate in a new profession, or work position, or career that allows you to fulfill your many passions and desires. You want to do this without interfering with mother-related responsibilities and on your own terms.

You will want to take control of your work selection process. You will not want to rely on unappreciative and unmotivated corporate and business worlds to select right professions for you. When you take control over your work selection process, you will be able to discover your true value and unleash your energies towards a new career that will be an excellent fit for you at this new point in life. When you chose new career that best suits your passions, priorities, experiences and talents you will achieve exceptional successes. You will also discover how much easier it will be to attract significant monetary and personal rewards when you operate in new career that you love. It is never too late for you to capitalize on what you have to offer and what you want to do, when you focus your efforts towards right work situation for you.

It’s time to consider yourself first for once. The key to you being able to discover then attain next career that best suits you is to look within yourself first. You come with a multitude of different experiences and priorities. Many times you are faced with option overload when you try to pick right post full-time motherhood career. You have also focused so much of your time, energy, and thinking on growth and improvement of your children (and spouse) that you have forgotten to take care of yourself. You will want to stop, take a deep breath, and seek what you want out of rest of your life.

Find right person to assist you. How will you be able to change directions and concentrate on yourself first, to discover what personal motivations you have, after years of putting others first? You will want to find right person who will focus only on you as a person and assist you to unravel mystery of who you are and who you want to become. You want someone who is highly motivated to assist you, who is trustworthy, who is objective, who is nonjudgmental, and has done this before. You might consider using a friend, but objectivity becomes an issue. You could consider using a therapist, but you do not need to be fixed. Another alternative would be to consider using a professional life coach to support you in this process. We have found that mothers who use a life coach transitioned into wonderful and enjoyable new lives, without interfering with their motherhood.

Conclusion

Now you see why I believe that Motherhood is most intriguing, important, and under appreciated profession in world. Yet, most mothers don’t anticipate that motherhood also has a very unique and misunderstood reduction in time and effort demands as their children grow up. As a mother, you will want to recognize and plan for need to re-direct your wonderful talents and passions towards a new vocation as daily demands of motherhood wind down. Making transition to a new vocation can be daunting. The best course for you to take control over this transition and select right vocation for you is to seek assistance from right person, and not try to do it alone.

Provided as an educational service by Bill Dueease of The Coach Connection, where “connecting great people with great coaches” is their goal. You may receive a free copy of the article “The Ten Paths to Human Improvement” by contacting The Coach Connection at 800-887-7214 or 239-415-1777 or coaches@findyourcoach.com, or http://www.findyourcoach.com