The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine

If I tell you not to think of a blue tree, what's the first thing that comes into your head? Odd, isn't it? And we are more likely to succeed if we focus exclusively and positively on what we want.

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In May 2018 the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development reported a further increase in the number of people going to work when unwell. It also noted a similar increase in the number of people using annual leave to work. This is a far cry from John Maynard Keynes’ view that we would all be working a 15-hour week by 2030. Where did that seemingly utopian dream go?

If indeed we are all working more, I am left wondering what we are sacrificing. read more