I mentioned a few weeks ago that I’ve changed my Safari home page away from BBC news, and turned off BBC Radio 4 in the mornings.  It’s so refreshing! 

I really thought I’d miss the Today programme - it’s so interesting and education but it was also negative and I just didn’t want to start the day worrying about Greece and it’s impact on the Eurozone.  You may call it burying my head in the sand but I find it’s so much more fun to allow my mind to run free listening to classical music (plus my parent’s will be so proud!).

The home page was more of a challenge - news is addictive and I always like to know what is going on around me but once again the media was just bombarding me with negative stories.  I tried having my homepage of one of the blogs I follow but that was too preachy - I like to dip into those when I’m in the mood.  Somehow I found StumbleUpon (ignore the joke in there!).  Now I don’t profess to being an expert and I’m sure I’m only using it in an amateur way but it’s fantastic.  It has opened up the web to me.  By choosing my interests it goes out and finds websites that fit that category that i might like  -  most of the time it gets it right but I can help it learn by ensuring that I say whether or not I like or dislike each of the sites it offers.

In the past week I’ve seen some stunning photographs, read some inspirational stories and laughed out loud at some jokes.  So in your break, why not have a look at StumbleUpon and come back to work refreshed and inspired?