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 [...]

Everyone knows that after a good night’s rest you feel wide awake and full of spark.  Concentration is easy and your mind works efficiently.   And the reverse it true too.  When you do not have enough sleep, your body becomes inefficient and your mind lethargic.  In fact not getting enough sleep raises the body’s stress [...]

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 [...]

One of the main ways that causes so much stress in everyday life is taking too much on.  We all do it.  There are time demands from children, parents, work and home life to balance. And relaxation time “me time” and “us time” too if you can schedule it in.  Then there is the daily commute to work or [...]

Stress is largely a matter of perception.  That does not mean that you do not have real physical responses.  The stress fight or flight response is very real.  Rather the way you interpret stress is subjective and varies from one person to another.  You can change your stress levels by changing the way you perceive [...]

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 [...]

Stress relief comes in many forms.  One of the most useful in my opinion, and perhaps hardest to achieve at least initially, is developing a positive mental attitude.  After all, in today’s hectic and high stress environment, it is often easier to lapse into negative thoughts than to remain positive and happy, even when you [...]

Stress relief comes in many forms – and one of my favourite of all is finding a solution to what ails WordPress when it decides to do whacky stuff with my blog!  I just wanted to share what I’ve discovered in case it helps anyone else reduce their computer stress.  A few posts ago I [...]

Stress does not respect age, gender, wealth, ethnicity, ability, IQ, EG, the great, the good or anything else for that matter!  Everyone I know suffers stress at some point in their lives.  Absolutely everyone.  And as far as I can make out, they only differ from each other in two respects: the extent to which [...]

Today’s modern world is a high stress environment.  With world news coming at you 24/7, it can be difficult to switch off and relax.  But that is exactly what you must do if you are ever going to reduce your stress levels. High stress levels lead to difficulty sleeping.  And a lack of sufficient quality [...]

If you know anything about me, you’ll probably know that I’m in ebook writing mode – which I’m doing from scratch!  It will be all my own thoughts and words.  Short blog posts and articles I can do easily, but this is very different.  I’m about as far out my comfort zone as I would [...]

What does your weight have to do with stress?  Much more than you think!  Aside from the fact that many of us are overweight due to eating during a stressful situation, stress hormones in our bodies actually tell our bodies to store fat during stressful times.  It’s like adding insult to injury!  It’s safe to [...]