September 2025
Hello everyone,
Parents, rejoice, the children are back in class... You can finally relax for a couple of minutes without being interrupted by the (shrill!) cries of your offspring and get back to your family routine.
Did you know that routine has benefits, and not just for children?
Habits help us concentrate and sleep better, while reducing the time needed to make decisions. This concept, known as decision fatigue, can sometimes slow us down, as
this article explains. Routine ultimately allows us to free up time for ourselves...
How about we take advantage of the start of the school year to talk about mental load? But what exactly are we talking about?
Mental load is the invisible weight we carry every day: thinking about everything, all the time, for everyone, according to the
UCLA Health.
We can't finish without telling you that we have some big news in the works... We're already excited and can't wait to tell you all about it.
Stay tuned, the big day is coming!
Francis, Michael, Hossein, Jean-Marc, Kristopher and Stéphane
Retiring retirement: rethinking growth in the age of longevity
Image credit: Leslie Eckert, Pixabay
In a world where people increasingly live into their 90s and beyond, traditional assumptions about retirement, careers, and consumer behaviour are no longer viable.
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Five things to know about the micro-vacation
Image credit: Digital Designer, Pixabay
A new vacation trend we’ve been hearing about is the micro-vacation, and it’s ideal for people who want to travel, but not take the one (or two) week excursions we used to. A micro-vacation is more or less a weekend-long trip, but it doesn’t have to be over the weekend. A micro-cation is typically a Friday evening, Saturday, half the day Sunday. Or you could do that schedule on a Tuesday-through-Thursday trip.
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