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 The old ‘cradle to grave’ mentality of a secure job for life has been replaced by the reality of the 4 R’s.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:
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Ambition would seem to be an essential ingredient in success.
Ambitious people are often praised for their energy and resourcefulness and held up as examples for others to follow.
I was therefore surprised to read of a study that listed ambition in the number one position in the top 12 workplace stress factors ahead of customer service, [...]

Like many people I am becoming increasingly alarmed at the levels of stress generated in the community through the politics of fear.
The Swine Flu is a good example of this where news reporting and Government announcements conveyed the impression that this was the pandemic we had to have and that millions of us would die.
I’m [...]

I have just received an email from my good friend Niels Warren in Sydney who writes as follows:
“My friend Peter Solness is an outstanding photographer.  I have just previewed an exhibition of Peter’s work which he calls “Illuminated Landscapes”.
The photographs, composed at night with the aid of a hand-held torch, are truly beautiful.
His focus is [...]