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We're obsessed with linearity – growth charts, career ladders, everything measured in a relentless upward crawl. But nature does her finest work in cycles, in bursts and retreats. It's okay for our lives to mirror that. We can have bursts of intensity, followed by alternative priorities/rest in both the micro and the macro.

Americans now want a better work-life balance and more job flexibility. Here’s a simple trick to stretch out your vacation days by taking the majority of them around public holidays.