Andrew May on Mix 106.5 Body & Soul Program talks Flip the Switch
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Andrew may on 2UE - Back to Work Blues
Andrew May talks with Steve Price about the back to work blues
While everyone has different needs and requirements, try the following suggestions to help you wrangle the post holiday blues and get some bounce back in your step.
1. Get organised
A major reason many people feel down when they get back into work is the fact they are disorganised and spend the majority of the working day casing their tales. Use the first few weeks back at work as a genuine opportunity to get organised and set yourself up for a successful year ahead. Think about your own personal development for the year ahead. What skills will make you more productive? How about learning a new language or a musical instrument to stimulate different parts of the brain?
2. Plan your recovery
Holidays are an essential tool to help recover, refresh and recharge. Grab your diary and plan the year ahead. Lock in your next break and this will give you something to look forward to on the harder days. Also try and lock in 2 or 3 mini-breaks throughout the year. You have a much greater likelihood of this happening if you enter it in your diary.
3. 2 to 3 week window
Don’t make major life decisions in the first 2 or 3 weeks back from the summer break. Accept that your brain might still be on holidays for the first few weeks and go easy on yourself. Where possible, try and ease back into the working mould. Working a couple of weeks at a 50% load with reduces hours or working for 3 days a week can really help (just make sure you have pre-arranged this with your employer!) This is a great alternative for the first few weeks after an exciting summer break.
4. Boost energy levels
Make a pact to keep looking after yourself now you are back to work. Don’t go from one extreme to another. Make yourself accountable and walk or swim with a work colleague 2 mornings a week, eat healthy foods that help you think and concentrate throughout the day, get plenty of sleep. And build some FUN into your life. Just because you’re back in the office doesn’t mean the Fun Police have to hit you hard for the rest of the year!
5. Seek help if needed
While it’s not unusual to feel a little down in the first few weeks back at work, if this continues for more than a few weeks and you constantly feel down, sad or depressed please speak to your GP, a health professional or a psychologist/counsellor.
While everyone has different needs and requirements, try the following suggestions to help you wrangle the post holiday blues and get some bounce back in your step.
1. Get organised
A major reason many people feel down when they get back into work is the fact they are disorganised and spend the majority of the working day casing their tales. Use the first few weeks back at work as a genuine opportunity to get organised and set yourself up for a successful year ahead. Think about your own personal development for the year ahead. What skills will make you more productive? How about learning a new language or a musical instrument to stimulate different parts of the brain?
2. Plan your recovery
Holidays are an essential tool to help recover, refresh and recharge. Grab your diary and plan the year ahead. Lock in your next break and this will give you something to look forward to on the harder days. Also try and lock in 2 or 3 mini-breaks throughout the year. You have a much greater likelihood of this happening if you enter it in your diary.
3. 2 to 3 week window
Don’t make major life decisions in the first 2 or 3 weeks back from the summer break. Accept that your brain might still be on holidays for the first few weeks and go easy on yourself. Where possible, try and ease back into the working mould. Working a couple of weeks at a 50% load with reduces hours or working for 3 days a week can really help (just make sure you have pre-arranged this with your employer!) This is a great alternative for the first few weeks after an exciting summer break.
4. Boost energy levels
Make a pact to keep looking after yourself now you are back to work. Don’t go from one extreme to another. Make yourself accountable and walk or swim with a work colleague 2 mornings a week, eat healthy foods that help you think and concentrate throughout the day, get plenty of sleep. And build some FUN into your life. Just because you’re back in the office doesn’t mean the Fun Police have to hit you hard for the rest of the year!
5. Seek help if needed
While it’s not unusual to feel a little down in the first few weeks back at work, if this continues for more than a few weeks and you constantly feel down, sad or depressed please speak to your GP, a health professional or a psychologist/counsellor.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Andrew May on 2UE - Overcoming Adversity
Andrew May talks with Steve Price and Simon Katich from the Australia Cricket Team about overcoming adverstiy
Andrew May on 2UE - Mobile Mania
Andrew May speaks with Steve Price on 2UE about Mobile Phone Addiction
Remember the ‘monster mobiles’ we used in the late 80’s and early 90’s? Today’s mobile phone is faster, lighter, stronger and more convergent than ever before. Not only do we use them to talk and text, they are a digital camera, movie camera, diary, phone book, GPS, radio, MP3 player, web browser, data storage device, encyclopaedia, alarm clock, Dictaphone, personal organizer, flash light and a whole lot more.
Now don’t get me wrong, mobiles used wisely are a great productivity tool. But more and more people from teenagers to the twilight years are showing signs and symptoms of mobile addiction.
are you a mobile addict?
1. Do you get anxious if you don’t get an instant response to an SMS?
2. Does the thought of turning your mobile off send you into a shiver?
3. When you go out to dinner, do you sit the mobile on the table in front of you?
4. Do you feel unloved if your phone doesn’t ring, ding or zing for a few hours?
5. When you hop off a plane or finish a movie, is the first thing you do to check your
phone?
If you answered YES to any of the above – you may just suffer from mobile mania.
nomophobia
Getting married, starting a new job or going to the dentist have long been recognised as sources of great stress. But it seems they are now matched by a new, 21st century affliction – the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. A recent report reveals millions of people apparently suffer from ‘no mobile phobia’ which has been coined ‘nomophobia’. Mobile users have become so dependent on their mobile that discovering it is out of charge or misplaced sends stress levels soaring. A new British survey has revealed more than 13 million Britons fear being out of mobile phone contact. The researchers estimate nomophobia could affect up to 53 per cent of mobile phone users.
mobiles in australia
Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) led a study on mobile phone addiction. They found the average Australian spends an hour a day making calls and sending text messages. 22% of respondents were classified as ‘heavy’ or ‘very heavy’ users spending up to 4 hours or more a day on their mobiles. Interestingly, only 11% of phone time measured in the survey was related to business.
mobiles around the world
• 2 billion people worldwide are now hooked on to a mobile phone
• Half the people in the world are expected to have mobiles in the next 2 years
• 4 out of 10 young adults in Spain are considered mobile phone addicts
• 48% of Spaniards between 18 and 25 spend more than 4 hours a day talking and texting
• In South Korea, where 40.2M people from a total population of 49M have mobiles, the government is considering a ‘curfew’ limiting the amount of time teenagers spend on their phones
• Orange Tree Theatre in London has a zero tolerance policy to mobiles going off during productions and has a bonus waiting for the first actor to lead the entire cast off stage until the offender has been ejected from the theatre
• A Scandinavian chauffeur booked himself into a clinic for SMS addiction after his habit left him sending more than 300 text messages a day
• Psychologists are predicting mobile addiction will become one of the biggest issues over the next 5 years
symptoms of mobile addiction
While the 5 questions were a bit of fun, hard core mobile addicts will tend to neglect obligations and even important activities like work or study, can drift apart from family and friends, send and answer messages throughout the night and the thought of switching off their phone can even cause anxiety. They also tend to suffer more from sleep disorders and sleeplessness. The majority of mobile phone addicts have low self esteem and feel the urge to be constantly in contact with other people via their metallic mobile devices.
what about teenagers?
Mobile addiction is becoming more and more of a problem for teenagers. Discovering whether or not your child is a mobile addict is not an easy task. It’s much easier to see if someone is sitting at their computer for 8 hours a day. Reasonable use of mobiles can be positive for social development, yet too much can lead to withdrawal and decreased face to face contact. It is a good idea for parents to be proactive and monitor their child’s mobile usage.
mobile mantra
1. Practice turning your mobile off when at movies or sporting events – you don’t need it on 24/7
2. When you do need to concentrate or finish a project quickly – turn your mobile off to avoid interruptions
3. Go out to dinner with your loved ones, family, or friends – not your mobile. Turn it onto silent and put it in your pocket, not on the table!
4. Set some mobile hours – learn to turn it off at night
5. Don’t sleep with your message alert on – this can wake you up throughout the night and cause disrupted sleep patterns
6. If you do need to have your mobile on keep the ring tone on a quiet setting – the whole world doesn’t need to know that your phone is ringing!
7. Try going mobile free for a day or two – you might even enjoy the peace and silence.
Andrew May
Main sources: Queensland University of Technology Mobile Survey; Sydney Morning Herald – Mobile phones becoming a major addiction; Global Technology Forum – Addicted to the phone; Science News
Remember the ‘monster mobiles’ we used in the late 80’s and early 90’s? Today’s mobile phone is faster, lighter, stronger and more convergent than ever before. Not only do we use them to talk and text, they are a digital camera, movie camera, diary, phone book, GPS, radio, MP3 player, web browser, data storage device, encyclopaedia, alarm clock, Dictaphone, personal organizer, flash light and a whole lot more.
Now don’t get me wrong, mobiles used wisely are a great productivity tool. But more and more people from teenagers to the twilight years are showing signs and symptoms of mobile addiction.
are you a mobile addict?
1. Do you get anxious if you don’t get an instant response to an SMS?
2. Does the thought of turning your mobile off send you into a shiver?
3. When you go out to dinner, do you sit the mobile on the table in front of you?
4. Do you feel unloved if your phone doesn’t ring, ding or zing for a few hours?
5. When you hop off a plane or finish a movie, is the first thing you do to check your
phone?
If you answered YES to any of the above – you may just suffer from mobile mania.
nomophobia
Getting married, starting a new job or going to the dentist have long been recognised as sources of great stress. But it seems they are now matched by a new, 21st century affliction – the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. A recent report reveals millions of people apparently suffer from ‘no mobile phobia’ which has been coined ‘nomophobia’. Mobile users have become so dependent on their mobile that discovering it is out of charge or misplaced sends stress levels soaring. A new British survey has revealed more than 13 million Britons fear being out of mobile phone contact. The researchers estimate nomophobia could affect up to 53 per cent of mobile phone users.
mobiles in australia
Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) led a study on mobile phone addiction. They found the average Australian spends an hour a day making calls and sending text messages. 22% of respondents were classified as ‘heavy’ or ‘very heavy’ users spending up to 4 hours or more a day on their mobiles. Interestingly, only 11% of phone time measured in the survey was related to business.
mobiles around the world
• 2 billion people worldwide are now hooked on to a mobile phone
• Half the people in the world are expected to have mobiles in the next 2 years
• 4 out of 10 young adults in Spain are considered mobile phone addicts
• 48% of Spaniards between 18 and 25 spend more than 4 hours a day talking and texting
• In South Korea, where 40.2M people from a total population of 49M have mobiles, the government is considering a ‘curfew’ limiting the amount of time teenagers spend on their phones
• Orange Tree Theatre in London has a zero tolerance policy to mobiles going off during productions and has a bonus waiting for the first actor to lead the entire cast off stage until the offender has been ejected from the theatre
• A Scandinavian chauffeur booked himself into a clinic for SMS addiction after his habit left him sending more than 300 text messages a day
• Psychologists are predicting mobile addiction will become one of the biggest issues over the next 5 years
symptoms of mobile addiction
While the 5 questions were a bit of fun, hard core mobile addicts will tend to neglect obligations and even important activities like work or study, can drift apart from family and friends, send and answer messages throughout the night and the thought of switching off their phone can even cause anxiety. They also tend to suffer more from sleep disorders and sleeplessness. The majority of mobile phone addicts have low self esteem and feel the urge to be constantly in contact with other people via their metallic mobile devices.
what about teenagers?
Mobile addiction is becoming more and more of a problem for teenagers. Discovering whether or not your child is a mobile addict is not an easy task. It’s much easier to see if someone is sitting at their computer for 8 hours a day. Reasonable use of mobiles can be positive for social development, yet too much can lead to withdrawal and decreased face to face contact. It is a good idea for parents to be proactive and monitor their child’s mobile usage.
mobile mantra
1. Practice turning your mobile off when at movies or sporting events – you don’t need it on 24/7
2. When you do need to concentrate or finish a project quickly – turn your mobile off to avoid interruptions
3. Go out to dinner with your loved ones, family, or friends – not your mobile. Turn it onto silent and put it in your pocket, not on the table!
4. Set some mobile hours – learn to turn it off at night
5. Don’t sleep with your message alert on – this can wake you up throughout the night and cause disrupted sleep patterns
6. If you do need to have your mobile on keep the ring tone on a quiet setting – the whole world doesn’t need to know that your phone is ringing!
7. Try going mobile free for a day or two – you might even enjoy the peace and silence.
Andrew May
Main sources: Queensland University of Technology Mobile Survey; Sydney Morning Herald – Mobile phones becoming a major addiction; Global Technology Forum – Addicted to the phone; Science News
Monday, April 7, 2008
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