Good energy is having the right energy—physically and mentally—to fuel your actions throughout the day. A hallmark of body-energy management is that you happily flow from one activity to the next. When these elements are in sync, each action, each day fuels the next.

Good energy

Make a simple chart to help you see what kind of energy you operate on at various daily checkpoints and consider what affect this pattern has on you.Discover how to better match your own energy with your daily goals.

Getting started

The most common reason is energy mismanagement - not supporting specific times of the day and specific actions with the right match of energy.
Identify your own energy traps and mismatches and replace them with the right energy to increase your energy gains. You’ll get more done with less effort and greater satisfaction when you can train your body and mind to operate with “higher-quality currency.”

Why people feel drained

Switch activities to something more rewarding and pile it on, pushing the pedal to the metal until you recharge. You’ll reset the electrical activity in your mind and body and enjoy a cascade of self-produced anti-stress and happy hormones.

Eliminate burnout

In a seated position and well postured, as if there is a string atop your head pulling upward, use your thumb to gently rub the bottom (center) of each foot. Works fast.

Massage this acupoint to bust stress

Put a photo of a loved one, friend or pet doing something positive and silly—the sillier the better—on your phone.Making those childish funny faces or facial expressions works great. Use as needed.

Eliminate bad moods

Think over tomorrow’s agenda. Identify a predictable situation when you’ll drain a lot of energy. Plan a restorative activity before or after. Get to a different environment and do something creative: Listen to an audiobook, sketch a natural scene, try some creative writing.

Plan a recharging activity

<ul><li>Find an environmental photo that has a relaxing effect on you </li><li>Find a piece of fast-paced music that makes your energy soar. </li><li>Place these on your cellphone. </li><li>Relax and deepen your breathing, empty your mind of thoughts and mindfully observe the photo for five to seven minutes. </li><li>Afterward, play your fast tune.</li></ul>

Heighten your energy

Your energy matters more than even your time. Manage it well.

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Managing Energy

I want 2017 to be the best year ever for myself and all of you. One way we can make this happen is to cultivate awesome body and mental energy to help us accomplish the things we want to do. So, let's make it happen and create a new energy you!

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Habits

5 Ways to Recharge Your Energy Anytime

No one is truly successful alone and you can’t get different results by doing the same things. By asking for help, you benefit from someone else’s perspective and give them the opportunity to help solve a problem.Just ensure that you ask someone whose opinion you trust and that has experience with similar situations.

Ask For Help

Often, our blocks result from us getting stuck in an unwanted pattern of thought. It becomes a routine and eventually an unwanted rut.Changing your inner or outer environment disrupts our routines and can be incredibly effective at helping us broaden our perspective. Ultimately, it’ll help us see new solutions to old problems.

Change The Environment

Blocks arise when we focus on what we don’t want, instead of what we do want.&nbsp;A good way to remove the block is to spend some time doing something completely unrelated to the problem you are working on.

Change The Channel

An effective way to get creative and circumvent blocks is to engage in high-intensity activities that ground you in the present. Anything that gets you into a different environment, preferably one with fresh air and nature, often does the trick.

Seek Out Sweat Sessions

Blocks happen when we are not in the present. Showers bring our attention firmly back to the present moment and allow us to relax, enabling us to develop more ideas and creative solutions to our problems. They also have positive effects on our health and outlook in life.

Hit The Shower

We've all been there- staring at a blank screen, throwing endless drafts in the trash, pulling out hair, scrolling through Facebook photos, re-ordering music libraries and even wiping the computer clean. We do anything to pass the time and avoid admitting the painfully obvious - we've hit a block.

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Problem Solving

5 Ways to Overcome Mental Blocks

Reading is to the mind as exercise is to the body.Make time to read books that help you make positive changes in your life. Then put into practice what you learn every day.

Exercise your mind

Alone time is just as important as socializing time. It is important to stay alone for you to understand your thoughts and emotions at a deeper level. When spending time alone, put your phone and other devices away. Turn off the television and meditate for a couple of minutes. Sit down comfortably. Close your eyes and ask yourself, “What do I want? “

Alone time

You can get inspired by listening to good music. If you are feeling tired and stressed out, just listen to good music. It makes you feel peaceful, happy and relaxed.And you can only get inspired if you are peaceful, happy and relaxed

Listen to music

Going for a jog or a run and breathing in the fresh air can get you inspired. Exercising not only keeps you healthy but also relieves stress and anxiety. You can generate the one idea that you’ve always been looking for just by getting out and jogging.

Exercise regularly

Taking your time to acknowledge what you have and give thanks will make you happy and inspired. If you are not grateful for what you have, you’ll be operating from a place of lack and you’ll attract lack in your life.

Gratitude

A person without goals has no direction. And he or she can never know if he or she is making progress or not. Create your life goals and then break them down to yearly goals, monthly goals, weekly goals, and daily goals. Having a sense of direction and knowing that you are making progress will keep you inspired.

Set your goals

Listen to the stories of other people. You’ll be happy to realize how fortunate you really are. Most of the people around you have gone through things you might never imagine. And there they are standing in front of you. Listen to their stories and how they solved their problems.

Listen to other people

If you want to get inspired, help someone. Contribute a small portion of your money to improve the lives of others. That will definitely inspire you and you’ll end up receiving more than you actually gave.

Give back

Inspiration is an essential ingredient for success in any field. I have never seen a person without inspiration making it big. Inspiration enhances determination and creativity. Without determination and creativity, you'll find yourself doing things just for the sake of doing them. Do you think you've lost your inspiration?

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Motivation & Inspiration

Importance of Inspiration. 8 Tips to Stay Inspired For Life.

<ul><li>Wholefoods such as leafy green vegetables, legumes, whole grains, lean red meat, and seafood, provide nutrients that are important for optimal brain function. </li><li>Many types of fitness activities are potentially beneficial – from swimming to jogging to lifting weights or playing sports. Even just getting the body moving by taking a walk or doing active housework is a positive step.</li></ul>

Improve your diet and start moving

People with alcohol and drug problems have a greater likelihood than average of having a mental illness and have far poorer health outcomes.Stopping smoking is an important step, as nicotine-addicted people are constantly at the mercy of a withdrawal-craving cycle, which profoundly affects mood.

Reduce your vices

Sleep hygiene techniques aim to improve sleep quality and help treat insomnia. They include: adjusting caffeine use, limiting exposure to the bed (regulating your sleep time and having a limited time to sleep),  limiting exposure to the blue light from smartphones, and making sure you get up at a similar time in the morning.

Prioritize rest and sleep

Adequate exposure to sunshine helps levels of the mood-maintaining chemical serotonin. It also boosts vitamin D levels, which also has an effect on mental health, and helps at the appropriate time to regulate our sleep-wake cycle.

Get a dose of nature

Positive lifestyle changes aren’t a replacement for medication or psychological therapy but, rather, as something people can undertake themselves on top of their treatment.While many lifestyle changes can be positive, some changes (such as avoiding junk foods, alcohol, or giving up smoking) may be challenging if being used as a psychological crutch.

Reach out when you need help

When someone is diagnosed with a mental health disorder such as depression or anxiety, first line treatments usually include psychological therapies and medication. What's not always discussed are the changeable lifestyle factors that influence our mental health.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Five lifestyle changes to enhance your mood and mental health

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

Phenomena that happen outside of us don’t cause happiness. They might be correlated with happiness but it’s not a cause-and-effect relationship. The most important part is what happens in our brain between the external event (a good cup of coffee) and our state of happiness.

Where Happiness Comes From

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

Things within us that to appreciate - they can make us happy, no matter what’s going on outside:<ul><li>Being generous</li><li>Being loving and kind</li><li>Feeling compassion and empathy</li><li>Being skilled at something</li><li>Being a good listener</li><li>Knowing how to appreciate the beauty in nature and in others</li><li>Being determined</li><li>Being creative.</li></ul>

Finding Happiness Within

The key skill is to learn to notice, accept and appreciate everything around us, and everyone we see and interact with.Often if we fail to see good in things or people around us (or ourselves), it’s a failure to pay close attention. All around us are examples of beauty, creativity, inspiration, triumph, pain, joy, life.

Appreciating All That’s Around Us

'Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.' ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus We've talked a bit about seeking happiness in external sources ... but what's the alternative? Well, the obvious answer is to seek happiness within - but today we'll look at some ways to do that.

How to Find Happiness Within : zen habits

What seems like a tangled cloud of open-ended old to-dos is actually a series of independent happenings, which are best treated individually.
Once you’re treating each obligation as separate from the whole bundle of “stuff to-do”, you can see that they each have a very predictable life cycle and it brings in the realm of the concrete.

Treat tasks individually

The moment you start acting on something, you are at the beginning of the end of the anxiety associated with that thing.
Many procrastinators are pessimists and overestimate the difficulty of the task they are avoiding. They think doing it is the hard part. But not doing it is much harder.

The end of anxiety

The moment you start avoiding action again, due to fear or aversion, you are re-entering a nonproductive phase. 
Physical action ceases, and pointless overthinking begins.

Avoiding action

It comes from a misapprehension of what it will actually be like to do the work.
This anxiety is made of abstract, big-picture emotional concerns, about reputation, legacy, anxiety for the future, self-esteem, comparisons to others — worries about who you are, rather than what you’re doing.

Anxiety associated with obligations

You finish a thing by starting it until it’s done.
Finishing is only a matter of starting from where you are, as many times as you have to until it’s done.

Finishing a task

I have a special sympathy for sufferers of a particular human problem, and I get more emails about it than just about any other topic. There are normal people, who get overwhelmed on those occasions when they have more obligations to fulfill than time in which to fulfill them.

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How to Get Yourself to Do Things

Being well-rested is essential to health. You'll have more energy, more patience, and less anxiety if you accumulate eight hours of quality sleep in a day.To ensure you sleep well, create and stick to a sleep schedule and ensure you are relaxed and comfortable when you go to bed.

Sleep

Staying hydrated helps keep the skin clear, your mood balanced, and helps both digestion and your immune system.Try to keep a water bottle on you at all times so you have the constant reminder to drink throughout the day.

Hydration

Keeping up with your physical health reduces stress and releases endorphins (the chemicals that make you happy).Exercise is also defined as any form of physical activity. So dancing in the apartment, walking around campus, or hitting the gym could all help you maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Exercise

Focusing on so many academic or personal tasks at once is stressful, so a lot of people simply crash. Taking short breaks in between tasks can help prevent this.Don't be afraid to step away from homework and watch an episode on Netflix. It'll help you get out of the stress vortex for a while, and you'll return to work feeling more relaxed and ready to go.

Netflix Is Your Friend

When we are so overwhelmed by long To-Do lists, nervous breakdowns are not uncommon. But they are avoidable.Meditation is an incredibly powerful tool to combat nervousness, anxiety, and stress. Find a quiet place, get comfortable, and clear your mind.

Meditation

Keeping a balanced diet, with vegetables, fruit, proteins, dairy and carbs takes more effort but is fundamental to good health. <div>For a good diet keep in mind the following: <ul><li>Eating late at night affects your sleeping habits. </li><li>Overeating can take a toll on your metabolism and energy levels.</li><li>Eating three properly sized meals a day helps maintain energy levels and a good mood.</li></ul></div>

Eat Well

Hanging out with friends is a great way to unwind and a lot of fun. But it's also important to recognize when you need time for yourself.Take naps, go for walks, close your door, whatever you need.

"Me Time" And "We Time"

It’s easy to overcommit and end up burning out.Make a cost-benefit analysis to ensure the tasks you have allow you to be healthy, happy and more relaxed.

Know Your Limits

Take care of the four pillars of wellness this year: Nutrition, Activity, Mindfulness and Sleep.

New Year New You

In college it's so easy to forget about self-care. There are classes and homework and projects and essays and jobs and extra-curriculars and friends and relationships and before you know it, it's 3:30 a.m. and you can't fall asleep because you're wired on coffee and half a pint of Ben & Jerry's "The Tonight Dough."

8 Rules For Self-Care

<div>You control your happiness the same way you control your health, and If you can set goals for your health, you can do it for happiness.</div><div>Pursuing intrinsic goals, like learning a new language or taking care of your body, provides a sense of purpose and a feeling of control over your life, making you happier because you want to become better.</div>

Set Happiness Goals

<div>Sleep and happiness go hand in hand. Try to make your bedroom conducive to good sleep as much as possible.</div><div>Soundproof it and cut light as best as you can; that includes keeping away any gadget that will tempt you to surf the web.</div>

Make Your Bedroom A Haven

<div>Theanine, which is present in green and black tea, reduces anxiety and will calm your nerves and make you happy.</div><div>So whenever you're feeling stressed because things aren't going your way, grab yourself a nice cup of tea to calm your nerves.</div><div></div>

Drink Tea

<div>Outdoor play, gardening, or any activity that might bring contact with soil, trees, and plant life will increase the opportunity for exposure to microbial diversity.If the activity is conducted in natural environments, it increases the likelihood that the individual will inhale natural phytoncides (aromatic chemicals secreted from trees and ornamental plants) that are associated with human stress reduction and immune system benefits. </div>

Play With Dirt

<div>When you move your body, the level of serotonin increases -- serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is proven to help your brain to release endorphins, which are feel-good chemicals.</div><div>You don't need dancing classes; just turn on the music and shake your body.</div>

Dance

<div>Owning and caring for a pet will boost your mood and give you a good feeling and happiness. </div><div>If you can't own a pet, volunteer at your local shelter to get a dose of puppy love.</div><div></div>

Get A Furry Friend

<div>Reading will give your brain a work-out just like walking gives your body a work-out. </div><div> Adventure stories also take you on the characters' adventures and give you an outlet for emotions found in the real world.</div>

Read Adventurous Stories

<div>Listening to sad music can lead to beneficial emotional effects such as regulation of negative emotion and mood as well as consolation.  </div>

Listen to Sad Songs

<div>Invest in things that give you good memories. Buy things like games you can play with friends or family when they come to visit.</div><div>Plan a long vacation, and take lots of pictures as forever memories. When you get stressed, just look at the pictures and you'll get a good mood boost.</div><div></div>

Buy Happiness

Photoclub-65174116 Have you ever had everything in your life spin out of control? Nothing you do works out the way you want. Everything goes wrong. And the whole world seems to be conspiring against you. Keeping your happy demeanor up during those times is hard, isn't it?

9 Simple Tips to Keep Your Mood Up (Even When Everything Goes Wrong)

Bad moods happen 50% of the time simply because of a lack of energy. When you have lots of energy your mind moves faster, you get more done and you feel happier.
The next time you feel down, stop trying to think your way through it and instead boost your energy.

Boost Your Energy

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<li>Physical Exercise – Doing some light exercise creates a huge boost in your physical energy.</li>
<li>Think Faster – Games, brainstorming or other thinking exercises boost your mental energy.</li>
<li>Drink Some Water – Hydrating yourself can give you a boost of energy.</li></ul>

How to boost your energy

You may notice that often when you are in a bad mood you don’t do very much. Depressed people often perpetuate their mood by remaining in the same environment.
Going to see friends, watching a movie, reading a book, even doing the errands and chores that need to be done, are all methods of getting new input.

Get New Input

Feeling grateful is an easy way to get out of a bad state. Just ask yourself what you are thankful for. If there are any parts of your life that have improved? Simply visualizing the difference can give a small boost to your mood.

Ever feel lousy, bored or even downright depressed? We all have our moments, but how do you take a bad turn into a negative emotional state and flip it around? I believe that the overall amount of happiness you experience in your life isn't based upon how much pain you are dealt but how you recover from it.

How to Get Back Into a Good Mood | Scott H Young

Listening to upbeat music can actually improve your mood. It's important not to overthink, "Am I happy yet?" while listening, and instead just allow yourself to enjoy the experience.

Listen To Upbeat Music

Laughter increases dopamine in our brains, which is a chemical that elevates mood. The next time you're in a bad mood, try pulling up some Amy Schumer or an SNL digital short on YouTube.<h3></h3>

Get A Good Laugh

Even mild exercise, about 40 percent of your max heart rate, can lift your mood.  Do activities that match your mood instead of trying to force yourself to do something you're just not feeling.

Walk Around The Block

Clutter is a reminder of things that should be getting done, but aren't, and can help fuel feelings of failure.Just the illusion of order is enough to ease the mind. Put things into neater stacks and piles for an instant boost in mood.<h3></h3>

Declutter

When you stimulate the pressure receptors in the skin, you lower stress hormones. Touching others stimulates oxytocin, which also has positive effects on our mood. Rubbing your own forehead, hands, and neck, as self-massage has been shown to decrease heart rate and reduce the stress hormone cortisol in our systems. <h3></h3>

Give Someone A Hug

Reflect on three things that are going well or three positive moments in your day, and even replay them in your mind.Mentally revisiting these moments will help bring back the good mood and feelings they initially created.

Think About What Went Well

There are actually some advantages to venting about a problem to a friend, and helping with your mood is one of them. In many situations, it's better for you to discharge negative emotions than to keep them bottled up inside.

Allow Yourself To Vent

Some days staying positive and upbeat can feel like an uphill battle. Maybe it was a stressful day at work, a fight with a friend, or even just an off day - whatever it is, there are definitely things you can do to improve your mood.

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