Sheryl Sandberg, COO Facebook, about the balance between personal life and work

All have long been accustomed to the fact that if you quickly fly up the corporate ladder, then think about the personal life you just do not have time. This is especially true of girls. If you come to a promising job, you immediately make it clear that from now on your colleagues - it's your family, and if you want to become a respected member of the team in the next five years the children can not even think.

Among my friends there are so many successful and without family, and vice versa. And only a few manage to successfully combine work and personal life. And the most successful of all people share their secrets in order that someone could still get at least a modicum of happier and more successful.

Advice from Sheryl Sandberg, COO Facebook. She has something to tell.

Cheryl found a simple rule that allows it to be successful both at work and at home. She and her husband, David Goldberg, CEO SurveyMonkey ™, evenly divided household responsibilities and defined their work priorities (and not only it).

In his video Sheryl talks about the most important career decisions and how to keep a balance between work and personal life.

In the standard American family woman performs much more housework and child involved. So most simply can not manage to be successful in career and family life. We all have a choice, but the women, for some reason, did not allow men to decide how they want to help them around the house and with the kids.

Perhaps men would be very nice if we allow them to help us on the farm. They would suit that can help around the house.

When the family Cheryl had their first child, her husband worked in another city. But they still tried to maintain a balance and divide housework equally, to him or her career is not affected. If a woman has a successful husband, she usually say something like: "Wow, congratulations! Your husband is brilliant! ". But when the family is more successful a woman around, for some reason, they begin to sympathize with her husband and ask how he is going through all this. Because man is more successful than his wife - it's almost an axiom and is considered perfectly normal. But when a woman seeks in her career more than her husband, it is extremely rare. That is the success in the career of men is the norm, and successful business and this family women - it is rather a special case.

The most important decision you can make in relation to your career - is the choice of your second half.

After watching this video I had a natural question: "Do you know how to balance?". How to share family responsibilities in your family, and whose career has higher priority. And if all agree with that? Or silent just because the version of the "successful man - less successful woman" we considered the standard?