This Stress Tip is guest authored by Glenda May, an organisational psychologist. We all now work in an insecure working environment. The old ‘cradle to grave’ mentality of a secure job for life has been replaced by the reality of the 4 R’s. Redundancy Redeployment Retraining Retrenchment Here are some things you can do to [...]

Forgetfulness can be stressful particularly for students preparing for exams. Failure to recall information is usual a function of poor storage. Let me share with you a simple but effective system I have used for many years to keep track of things I have read in books. Let’s say I’m reading a book on psychology [...]

You can reduce the stress of bill paying by reminding yourself of why you are spending the money. Here is a hypothetical analysis of some bills with the reason for paying them: Bank Loan Without the bank loan it would not have been possible to acquire my house and land. I derive immense joy from [...]

Cooking meals can sometimes be stressful, especially after a long day at work. Not so for Mike and Anita in Sydney.  Mike is a solicitor and his partner Anita is a human resources consultant. Mike and Anita prepare the evening meal together and use this time to catch up and share news about the day. [...]

Dr Brent Coker from the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne has found that workers who spend no more than 20% of their workplace time in online social networking at work are 9% more productive than those who don’t. He calls this activity Workplace Leisure Internet Browsing or WILB (academics love [...]