We live in an age where everything is about success. You have to be successful in order live well – that is what we think we know. Well, it’s all clear with the men – success is a kind of their stylish attribute, but what about the fair sex? Nowadays women often perform purely masculine functions in life – like making business, earning money, trying to do everything at the same time. This is a result of the superwoman myth – and it takes its beginning in the 60-ies.

This myth has literally ruined lives of numerous women. The superwoman has to have it all no matter what – she is successful in every aspect of life, works 25 hours a day, stays at work late, looks gorgeous, has beautiful children, a spouse to die for, and not least successful friends – and all that at the same time. She just doesn’t want to admit that she can not do something in this life. If you recognize yourself, stop for a moment and ask yourself a question: is this what you really wish for, or you do that because those other superwomen do that so beautifully and easily (at least, so it seems on the silver screen)?

Than ask another question: when this all started? If you look back in history, you can easily understand that in the second half of the XX century, when women obtained the possibility to work outside home and equality of sexes which was so selflessly fought for, the stereotype of the superwoman was starting to appear. And now it is so firmly established in our minds that we find it hard to accept anything else.

Now read this: this is not what you have to do, this is what you have been told you have to do. You are not a machine, and you are not designed for constant competition. Equality of sexes is good, but not when you can’t distinguish who plays the role of the man in a family, as well as in the whole society.

You will never be the first in everything – and you don’t need it. You need joy, happiness and beauty in you life. You need to listen to your thoughts carefully and realise that being a superwoman is not what you want. Paradoxically, the moment you liberate yourself of this heavy and unnecessary superwoman myth, you truly become a superwoman, but not the one you are dictated to be, but the one you want to be.

This concept is hard to apply in real life, especially when you are accustomed to constant rat races. You may start panicking – if you don’t do all the superwoman duties, than who will do them for you? The truth is, if you relax and start turning your life in the way you want it, you will get all your duties done as if by magic. Isn’t this better than the life you are now in? Even if it sounds complete nonsense, why not trying out of interest? Do not change everything at once – start from minor things, only for one day, treat it as is it were an experiment. Just free yourself of the destructive superwoman myth, accept your wishes, your flaws, your failures – and you will feel at once that your life is gradually turning in a way it should be.

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