‘Hurry sickness’ is increasing as people struggle to manage their private and professional lives.  Employers and employees are struggling to balance day-to-day work and family pressure, learn new and challenging technologies, stay fit and healthy, maintain relationships and cope with personal financial pressures. And they are failing.  People’s lives are filled yet unfulfilled and these realities are impacting families and the workplace.  Burnout is rife and the ripple effect on personal and professional life is alarming.

Over the past weeks I have been work-shopping with people on the way we think – a sort of “check up from the neck up.”  One of the concepts we explored was the very old psychological truth about ‘we can’t control the stimuli that come our way in life but we can control our response.’