​This article should be helpful to all managers and professionals, but is aimed particularly at those whose work-life balance has been changed by the additional workload, and potential stress, of studying management development courses or professional qualifications, by distance learning or in the classroom, in order to develop their careers.

Can riches buy happiness? Wealth can buy many luxuries, but not happiness. Money cannot buy contentment.

On the surface it seems an odd idea that you could actually be anything other than who you really are.  But from the time we can talk, we're being programmed to "fit in".  We find ourselves conforming in order to please the people we love, and who love us. ​But sometimes that means that you have to suppress what you know is the real person inside.