How To Handle Your High-Maintenance Friends And Family Without Losing Your Mind 
How To Identify And Address Burnout 
The Best Ways To Keep Stress And Anxiety At Bay 
Ways You Can Relax And Recharge On Your Day Off 
Why Contract Workers Feel Really Good About Their Jobs 
What Stress Actually Does To You And What You Can Do About It Man’s best friend could also be his best co-worker, going by the results of a study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University in the US. 76 employees at a “service-manufacturing-retail company” were split into three groups — DOG (those who brought their dogs into work), NODOG (those who owned dogs but left them at home) and NOPET (those with no pets at all).
Are you spending too much time prioritising your to-do list only to still have unfinished tasks nagging at the back of your mind (the dreadful Zeigarnik Effect)? One solution may be to ditch the to-do list altogether and instead use task scheduling.
Productivity guru David Allen — he of the popular Getting Things Done productivity system — writes at the New York Times about how for many of us technology seems like it’s overwhelming and damaging our productivity. His solution: a five-step approach to prioritising your focus.
It’s no secret that thinking about money all the time leads to anxiety, but research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology suggests that when you think about your hourly wage all the time, you start to consider your leisure time lost revenue. This makes it so you have trouble relaxing.
Working with someone you absolutely can’t stand can be emotionally draining and keep you from doing your job. If you’re in this unfortunate situation, the Harvard Business Review offers some survival tactics, including one counterintuitive one: Spend more time with that person.
In a recent review of studies in the journal Current Direction in Psychological Science, psychologists found that when people make decisions under stress they focus more on the positive outcomes than the negative. This means people don’t always properly weigh their big decisions.
Most demanding careers practically guarantee stress, but if you’re feeling completely exhausted, unable to concentrate, or as though you’re neglecting your own well-being, you may be suffering from burnout. It’s a very real condition that’s easy to ignore, but you can detect and fix the problem if you know what to do. Here’s how.
Mac OS X and iOS: Breathing Zone is a simple app that helps slow your breathing rhythm to calm you down and make you feel more relaxed. If you’re a bit stressed or anxious, it’s a good way to help you alleviate those feelings in just a few minutes.
New research from the British Psychological Society suggests turning off your smartphone and ignoring social networks could be a simple way to quickly reduce stress. The study found that stress was most commonly associated with personal use of smartphones and not as often when used for work.
Mac: Computers are supposed to make our work easier, but in reality they often just bring us more work and stress us out. Give your Mac the opportunity to help you relax for a change with Forismatic, a free app that sits in the menubar until you need a little inspiration to help you keep going.
