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Make ‘Firebreaks’
I meet many people who are frantically busy. They wear their diaries and Filofaxes as badges of honour, proud to be indispensable and wanted by everyone.
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Don’t assume you are the cause of other people’s bad temper
Recently, I was driving along a quiet country lane on a fine day, and was in a good mood. An old friend drove past me at some speed. I just had time to acknowledge him before he was out of sight, but to my slight irritation…
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Become a team player
Many of us have to tread a fine path when dealing with work colleagues. Ideally, we would all work at the same pace and with the same intensity. At the end of each day everyone would go home happy…
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Stress Causes Memory Loss (and other stress-related news)
Scientists have discovered that if they play very irritating hissing noises to mice, the mice are then likely to forget where they can swim to safety while struggling to stay afloat in buckets of water …






