The American vacationer unable to silence his inner Puritan for those paltry 13 days a year must combine his holiday with some self-improving experience.
Ms Hewitt has said that while the myth that ministers control every local decision persists, her department had "already taken significant steps towards creating an independent, self-improving NHS".
In America and in Britain, on both the hardback and paperback lists, non-fiction books with a life-affirming or self-improving message are holding their own against those with a downbeat one.
They discover how to take self-improvement and learning skills seriously, improving their self-esteem in the process.
But the problem is they're making it the centrepiece of public health, whereas it is the wider conditions that actually shape health and behaviour, including taxation, education and improving self-esteem.
Most experts agree that increasing patient engagement and improving self-management skills for chronic disease will greatly reduce healthcare inefficiencies, but right now, there are limited resources available to patients for around-the-clock guidance, available to answer the 3 a.m. questions.
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Last month, Yao launched the Hope Primary Schools Basketball Season to teach basketball skills to Chinese youth in the hopes of improving their self-confidence and sportsmanship.
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He told lawmakers on Feb. 5 he would "shred" the bank's self-serving culture by improving ethics, and start linking employee pay with customer satisfaction and other measures.
The Story broods with a powerful confidence and earthiness, improving on the potential of her self-titled debut.
And yes, for all the talk of principle, many Tories might just be voting for electoral self-interest rather than an enthusiasm for improving democracy.
Although the books and audiovisual resources give inmates a general opportunity in any case to direct their thoughts away from the prison environment, the main value of the prison library is in providing its users with the option of further education and self-reflection, obtaining life skills and improving their reading skills.
Those figures are static or in some countries worsening: given the demography (Romani families are usually large), improving schooling is a matter of urgent European self-interest as well as of principle.
While self-help books on the brain tend to focus on improving memory or mood, "The Emotional Life of Your Brain, " written with science journalist Sharon Begley, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, makes the case that we can reprogram our brains to help shed negativity and lead a better and more productive life.
Home prices rose about 8% in 2012, which can contribute to a self-reinforcing circle of coaxing hesitant buyers off the sidelines while improving household balance sheets and creating cash-saving refinancing opportunities.
Yet, despite the real energy cost savings and environmental benefits associated with improving home energy efficiency, a series of barriers have prevented a self-sustaining retrofit market from forming.
MeXvi is the leading housing disaster relief agent in Mexico and has constructed approximately 4, 900 homes via its assisted self-construction program and has collaborated in the reconstruction of many devastated communities, improving the lives of approximately 25, 000 individuals.
Our foundation is made up of volunteers who team up to take on some tough inner city problems: improving the quality of life, enhancing educational and economic opportunities, building self respect and respect for family, education, health care and community service.
Mr Summers strongly denied one potential self-interested motive for a weaker dollar: to help the American stockmarket by improving the prospects of leading multinationals such as Intel, McDonald's, and Gillette, whose dollar profits from Europe have suffered from the weak euro.
He emphasised the importance of sound institutions and sensible policies in improving the lot of poorer nations, many of which rotted from the entrenched depredations of a self-serving governing class.
Since its inception in 2006, MeXvi has pioneered the assisted self-construction of homes in rural and semi-urban areas in over 13 states of Mexico, improving the quality of life of thousand of Mexicans.
Though I see evidence that this is improving in my work with women in organizations, I still routinely hear women describe themselves as poor self-promoters.
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