Kath Lockett muses on the lure of a cup of good coffee, and the way some bosses view the time it takes to purchase some of the good stuff as an unwarranted intrusion on the drones’ working days.

Kath Lockett can’t stand the thought of wearing her ID card on a lanyard around her neck and joining all the other ‘lanyard losers’. But even she has to give in eventually. So much for being a contrarian!

Kath Lockett tells the tangled story of going it alone as a self-employed writer — along with the problems of facing panhandlers, admitting to a flirtation with Feng Shui, and sundry other sources of uncomfortable self-realization.

Kath Lockett shares some of the inspiring stories from real blokes she interviewed for her book ‘Work/Life Balance for Dummies’. Forget the stereotype of the Australian male with a beer in one hand and his eyes glued to cricket on the TV. These men are as concerned about finding proper family time as any working woman. Their espereinces may help you see how to follow their examples.

In Part 3 of her series of tips on how to de-stress yourself and manage demands in all areas of your life, Kath Lockett looks at steps 6, 7 and 8: eating only quality food, learning to meditate, and blowing your cares away through cardio-vascular exercise. These are all good ways to find better physical, as well as mental, balance and clear out the stress hormones your body will have created when stress comes along.

Life in the 21st Century should be getting easier to manage, not harder. Our working hours have increased in line with jobs being vacated but not filled, and employers expecting overtime as the norm instead of the exception. All of which is leaving us with less time for anything else but work. Do we have to stick with this gloomy way of living? Maybe there is another way.

In Part 2 of her series of tips on how to de-stress yourself and manage demands in all areas of your life, Kath Lockett looks at three more steps: taking time out, finding ways to laugh more and rediscovering romance. Use them to bring back a better sense of balance and enjoyment and deal with some of the stress hormones your body will have created at other times.

To build the kind of lifestyle that allows you truly to live, work/life balance needs to be more than a buzzword. It needs to be a way of life. In the first of a series of items on how to de-stress yourself and manage demands in all areas of your life, Kath Lockett looks at two critical steps: learning to take pride in your imperfections and saying ‘No’ more often.

According to researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, white-collar psychopaths are the biggest villains in the average worker’s work and home life. Nowadays, office technology helps these white-collar psychopaths take credit for others’ good work, unfairly apportion blame and play games with employees loyalties — all from the safety of a computer keyboard. Read how some people were successful in dealing with their toxic boss.