Yesterday did not start well.  I knew as soon as I switched the computer on and headed over to Google Analytics, something was very wrong.  One of my sites, which normally attracts 50 or so visitors a day had crashed to zero over the weekend.  Either the tracking script had stopped working or I had [...]

Stress relief or high stress is a question of perception.  Whilst there is a lot of evidence to suggest that the way in which you deal with stress is a question of genetics, and of social conditioning (if you see your parents react badly to stress as a young child, you are likely to adopt [...]

A child laughs around 300 times a day; an adult, just fifteen.  That is a shocking fact!  And it may go at least some way to explaining why we all feel so much more stress as we grow older. Stress is a killer.  It is linked to heart disease, stroke and is implicated as a [...]

It is a well known fact that stress kills, or rather stress induced diseases kill.  But research has shown that in fact boredom kills more people every year in the western world than stress does!  So it is important to manage both your stress levels AND boredom levels at the same time.  That may sound [...]

You need to grab stress relief wherever you can and in whatever form you can.  I’ve found a fantastic form of stress relief in the most unlikely place! I have long thought that people, parents and non-parents alike, can be very cruel to their friends in the choice of gifts they give to their friend’s [...]