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 The old ‘cradle to grave’ mentality of a secure job for life has been replaced by the reality of the 4 R’s.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 reduce the stress of job insecurity:
1. [...]

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 and come across [...]

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 the property every [...]

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.
They are both [...]

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 acronyms).
The [...]