Why embracing lifestyle management solutions should be a news year’s resolution.

Usually, the end of the year brings up mixed emotions – excitement for a new beginning with the wistfulness of time passing. Not so this year, when we’d be hard-pressed to find anyone reluctant to say goodbye to 2020. It seems everyone spent the year scrambling, from finding toilet paper and homeschooling children, to revamping their business model. Whatever their circumstances, for millions of people day-to-day life looks drastically different than it did last winter. Some spent a few weeks or months “mourning” their routine, only to find that they actually prefer some aspect of their new normal.   Now, with the mass delivery of vaccines around the corner, we are regaining the sense that we can design our future, rather than just adapting to events. This optimism can be seen in a new study indicating that nearly three-quarters…

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Lifestyle management challenges increase when living almost exclusively from inside our homes.

Virtual parties, socially-distanced dinners and masked gift exchanges – however we choose to celebrate this holiday season, one thing’s for sure: it will always stand out in our memories.  And, as with every aspect of life this year, they are bringing out in us an incredible creativity with lifestyle management. Instead of setting places for twelve, families are figuring out what virtual games work best over Zoom. Companies of every size are doing what they can to keep their WFH teams feeling appreciated and motivated – from virtual wine and whiskey tastings to team-building exercises like virtual Escape the Room. And, as they’re finding out, these activities have as many moving parts as any in-person event.    Lifestyles can be challenging to manage even when we’re living it almost exclusively from inside our homes (just ask anyone who’s missed…

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How Technology Has Pushed Lifestyle Management To The Forefront Of Service Offerings.

It’s easy to forget how “primitive” life was before the 2000s. Just binge an old favorite on Netflix, for example, and you’ll see how many storylines were based on missed connections that would never happen today. Characters lost numbers that would now be stored in their phones, or they made an urgent call only get a home answering machine when today they would simply call the person’s mobile or fire off a text. They remained ignorant (often blissfully so) of world events unless they bought a newspaper or watched the eleven o’clock news, and the workday actually ended when they left the office. As you move on to more recent shows, you’ll see how the first iPhones dramatically changed the landscape again, and even those now look like relics from the Stone Age. How did we ever live without…

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