If you want to live an incredible life and achieve amazing things, you have to decide. Nobody ever stood on the summit of Everest and said “oh wow, this is a surprise.” It was a vision years before it became a reality. Living an incredible life is no accident. You have to start knowing what you want to achieve. You need to be clear on who you need to become in order to achieve what you want. And then you
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Youth unemployment remains an issue across developed economies. In some, more than half of those aged 20-24 are not in employment, education or training (NEET). In a recent index from PwC, the firm looks at how youth employment engagement has changed since 2005, finding that the situation declined significantly in Spain and Italy. For the UK, reducing the NEET rate to that of the best-in-region has the potential to add £55 billion, while for the 34 countries together an additional
PwC’s Young Workers Index, which weights eight indicators including employment, education and training for people aged 20-24, found Switzerland and Germany are the best performing EU countries, followed by Austria, Iceland and Norway. Meanwhile, UK’s performance remains below the OECD average at 21st place out of 34, despite seeing an improvement since 2011. According to the research, the results are consistent with other evidence that young people in the UK have been particularly hard hit by the economic downturn. PwC’s economist John Hawksworth
