Americans are bad at saving, but considering that 57% of them play the lottery, it’s not due to a lack of money to save in the first place. The Long Game is a mobile app that wants people to feel excited at the prospect of building a nest egg in the same way they would when buying a lottery ticket.

While people may once have counted calories to trim their waistlines, many now take a more holistic approach to health. Weight Watchers is repositioning itself as a lifestyle brand with the aid of Oprah Winfrey, who’s using her star power to draw Boomers back to the pioneering weight loss company.

The British Heart Foundation has claimed March as a time to ‘Dechox’, asking people to abstain from chocolate for a month and raise money in the process. But do these kinds of self-denial initiatives foster healthy attitudes towards food? And will people remember the cause behind the campaign?

The average person spends 90,000 hours at work over their lifetime, so it’s fair to want one’s efforts over that time to feel worthwhile. Canvas8 spoke with leadership researcher and coach Susan Fowler about what a new understanding of the human psyche means for workplace motivation.