Mother Mastermind: 5 Lessons on Career and Leadership from Tina Knowles

Lesson 5: Take time out for yourself.

Knowles admitted that it wasn’t until after her divorce that she started to take time out for herself and do things that really made her happy. She says that with the start of her clothing line, long work hours and a divorce, she really felt as if she had lost herself.

“It was always something new coming up. An opportunity, and an opportunity can sometimes not be the best thing when you need to take time out for yourself,” said Knowles.

So she started to get back to discovering what made her happy, and that included reading art books, traveling the world with her daughter for vacation and not work purposes, and telling her kids that it was time for her to have a selfish moment.

“I had really just forgotten how to live. I had lost all of myself,” said the mom of two.

In the midst of discovering her happiness, Knowles revealed that she also found love with an old friend of hers, who she’s now been dating for over a year, and says that she’s the happiest that she’s been in a long time.

“Most of the times in my life that have been the toughest and the worst and I thought I would die and not get through them, they turned out to be the best times.”