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<h1>Shift Work And Stress – Are You Tired And Up To Your Eyeballs In Debt Too?</h1> <p><strong>By: <a href=”http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/audra-starkey/229732″ title=”Audra Starkey’s Articles”>Audra Starkey</a></strong><p> <!–articlecontent–> <p><strong>About the Author</strong></p> <p><p>Audra is a Shift Work and Airline Veteran based in Brisbane, Australia. She is the author and creator of ‘The Healthy Shift Worker’ – a website designed to teach people how to cope with the perils of working shift work.</p></p><p>(ArticlesBase SC #1940303)</p> <p>Article Source: <a href=”http://www.articlesbase.com/”>http://www.articlesbase.com/</a> – <a href=”http://www.articlesbase.com/stress-management-articles/shift-work-and-stress-are-you-tired-and-up-to-your-eyeballs-in-debt-too-1940303.html” title=”Shift Work And Stress – Are You Tired And Up To Your Eyeballs In Debt Too?”>Shift Work And Stress – Are You Tired And Up To Your Eyeballs In Debt Too?</a></p>

If you’re a shift worker then you would know that shift work and stress certainly goes hand in hand with one another. Just getting up at 3am to go into work is stressful enough! So as a fellow shift worker and having just returned from a financial education conference in Sydney recently, I heard one of the guest speakers announce something that absolutely shocked me to the core.

And that was that Australia now has the highest household debt to disposable income ratio in the world.

Now this is frightening – truly frightening. To think that our debt levels are even higher than those living in the USA or UK absolutely floored me.

For every $100 we earn – we now spend $130. Now you don’t have to be Albert Einstein to realise that this is certainly not a good thing!

Considering that for many decades, Australia was regarded as ‘The Lucky Country’ – the land of opportunity where you could really live the good life. So where did we go so terribly wrong?

7.     DEFINITIONS:
A.   Should be provided from a reputable source
B.   Sound patronizing
C.   Are most effective when newly coined

8.     AN EXPRESSION SUCH AS “OUR CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE”:
A.   Has lost its effectiveness due to overuse
B.   Appeals to a broad spectrum of listeners/readers
C.   Reminds us of purpose

9.     THE REAL CHALLENGE FOR BUSINESS PEOPLE IS TO GET COMMUNICATION OUT OF INFORMATION, ACCORDING TO
A.   President George W. Bush
B.   Management expert Peter Drucker
C.   Futurist Alvin Toffler

10.     METAPHORS (COMPARISONS OF THINGS NOT TYPICALLY COMPARED):
A.   According to Aristotle, when understood, represent the beginning of genius
B.   According to management-guru Warren Bennis, help effect change
C.   According to Jose Ortega y Gasset, philosopher and Spanish Civil War
revolutionary, are the most fertile power on earth
QUIZ ANSWERS

(Give yourself one point for each correct answer.)
1.    B.  Research by J. Martin and M. Powers found the anecdote by itself was most effective in establishing credibility.
2.    C.  The gutsy, direct, feisty style of this super-salesman is shown in this sentence.
3.     A. “One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.” We fully concur with this assertion by statesman Dean Rusk.
4.    A.  Winston Churchill may have said it best: “Big [wo]men use little words.”
Check out the words of others who have exerted great influence: Reverend Martin Luther King (“I have a dream.”); JFK (“Ask not what your country can do for you.”); Mother Teresa (“We can do no great things–only small things with great love.”).
5.    C.  One of the best expressions of the post-September 11 era came from the President, when he stood at Ground Zero and responded to a firefighter who couldn’t hear everything the President was saying: “But I can hear you. The whole world can hear you. And very soon, those who destroyed these buildings will hear from all of us.”
6.     B.  Listen to the persuasive power contained in these unforgettable phrases:
President Jimmy Carter: “America did not invent civil rights. Civil rights invented America.”  Jesse Jackson: “I was born in the slums, but the slums were not born in me.” Baseball great Leroy Satchel Paige: “Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”
7.    C.  It’s tedious and seldom informative to hear a dictionary definition. Much more persuasive is an original definition, for example, this  by Lon Watters: “School is a building that has four walls with tomorrow inside.”
8.    A.  Sentences that are overused, obvious truisms lose their power via the sheer force of repetition. To restore power to such a thought, add an original spin. For example, “To protect our future, we must protect our children.”
9.     B.  Peter Drucker, Father of Modern Management Science, challenges all of us to convert data to meaningful thought.
10.    A., B., C.   Although they should never be mixed and should be used sparingly, the metaphor can create a truly lasting concept. “The Iron Curtain,” for example, or “The Glass Ceiling.” Warren Bennis once remarked, “If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to someone seeking to institute change, the first question I would ask is, ‘How clear is your metaphor?’”

QUIZ SCORING

9-10    You’ve persuaded us! A score this high indicates a true gift. If you’re not in a leadership position, you should be.

5-8    You know a good deal about the power of words. Ideally, you’re using that power both wisely and well.

1-4    If you’re a believer in continuous improvement, you’ll take the time to learn more about how to win ends (i.e., achieve goals) and influence people.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES A PERSON PERSUASIVE?
TAKE THIS TEST TO FIND OUT.

1.     TO CONVINCE OTHERS YOU ARE CREDIBLE AND TRUSTWORTHY:
A.   Cite statistics
B.   Share an anecdote
C.   Use a combination of statistics and anecdote

2.     LEE IACOCCA HAS BEEN NAMED THE SALESPERSON OF THE CENTURY. WHICH OF THESE SENTENCES BELONGS TO THIS PERSUASION-MEISTER:
A.  ” It is imperative for us to unite, to grit our teeth, to aspire to new heights.”
B.   “For in the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
C.   “It’s a leader’s job to bring the bad news, to get people to believe things they don’t want to believe, and then to go out and do things they don’t want to do.”

3.     A PERSUASIVE LEADER:
A.   Listens as much as he or she talks
B.   Tells it like it is
C.    Enjoys the use of power

4.     YOU’LL FIND EFFECTIVE PERSUADERS:
A.   Using little words
B.   Relying on current buzzwords
C.  Teaching their followers via “sesquipedalian” words (literally: one and a
half feet long)

5.     PARALLELISM (THE DELIBERATE REPETITION OF WORDS OR PHRASES):
A.   Is annoying to listeners/readers
B.   Creates a monotonous impression
C.   Is an effective persuasion-tool

6.     “CHIASMUS” REFERS TO:
A.   A style of footnoting references
B.   An expression that uses a word(s) from the first half of the sentence in a new
way, in the second half of the same sentence
C.   A literary device used by scholars

On May 12, 2008 in Sichuan province of China was also happened a great earthquake. And at least 68000 people were died, still lots of people were injured and missing.

May be from these news we will ask why so many disasters occured in recent years?

I think it is a warning to our human that we should pay more attention on protecting our earth and environment. Yes, with the development of society, we enjoy lots of benefits and happiness on high technology and see the big change of the world. However, there are more and more problems come out gradually, like Ozone Hole, Greenhouse Effect, or the Sea Level Rise for the climate change and so forth which are all threaten to our existence.

Watching the disaster happened one by one, we should not think it is far from us, we are on the earth, we are a whole family, they are near us. So it is our all duty to protect the environment from you and me. Maybe we cannot do the big contribution to the world, but if we do each small action and add them together, I think that would become a great for our world. Let all of us thrive to future together and reduce grief and create a better environment for generation and generation.

From the recently news, we usually hear some information about the latest situation about Chile. On the 27th, Feb, 2010, at 03:34 local time, rating a magnitude of 8.8 earthquake happened and lasting for about three minutes. Lots of people died and still others have been reporting missing. There are so many people’s house were damaged that they lack of water, food and so on. They are now in tight place.
Facing these things, what should you think? The aid to Chile is necessary, but do you think others?

Several month ago, we all know that there was also happened a huge earthquake in Haiti. According to the Haitian Government reports that about more than 200,000 had been identified as dead, an estimated 300,000 injured and 1,000,000 homeless.