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My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

Obviously, your family life is the priority, but there's still other stuff you have to get done in a day. I think the way I make it work is by taking care of myself, and that includes fitness and eating right and all those things, but also by being very organized and punctual.

For me, it's important to relax and concentrate on what I want to do.

It's how you prioritize in life.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

There isn't a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there's the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn't, I still did it all.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

Most people are balancing 10 or 20 priorities. I have two. My family and my work.