Five Tips To Restore Your Energy

What happens when you’ve given so much of yourself — to your job, to your family, to your friends, to your projects — that you’ve zapped all of your energy? How do you get it back?

Here are five tips towards restoring your energy:

1. Get a massage. Now, more than ever, you need to take care of your body to take care of all the holiday tasks and family and friends. A massage is an hour out of a day that will pay off exponentially. Consider it an early present to yourself.

2. Get a manicure/pedicure. It’s not as dumb as it sounds. Sitting in the chair, alone, for the time it takes for your fingers and toes to be done, is a forced rest period. The polish is a bonus.

3. Take yourself out to lunch for one. And not at a drive through! Sit yourself down at a nice restaurant and order yourself a salad or an entree that someone else is going to take the time to prepare for you. Have a glass of wine and an espresso before and after. Like the manicure/pedicure, sitting at a restaurant waiting for your order, eating your lunch, and sipping your coffee after is a forced rest. Your body will rejuvenate from the rest. Your body will be nourished by the healthy (not grabbed on the go) food, and your spirit will thank you for taking care of you so you can take care of others.

4. Make time for sex. Trust me — in all the hustle bustle, you’ll forget. You’ll be too tired. You’ll have shopping, baking and wrapping to do that will take precedence if you don’t make time for sex — a stress buster, rejuvenator and relationship builder.

5. Buy yourself a new fragrance. Aromatherapy is no joke. Inhaling a pleasing fragrance that is new, will give you a pleasant jump start. Relieve your stress, treat your senses — and everyone else’s around you!