Tap into your sexual energy
They don’t call it energy for nothing! It’s the primal drive, the pleasure from being close, the urge to celebrate and continue life. Sex—alone or with a loved one—can relax you, energize you, put you back in your body. An executive wearing a red lace teddy under her career suit knows that this isn’t necessarily about maintaining femininity but about keeping connected to a glow of aliveness and spark. Explore your sense of your sexual body as an energy, not an act, and it can help you breeze through your day.

Don’t try to “catch up” on sleep
Sad but true—if you try to catch up on your sleep by staying in bed longer on the weekend it can backfire and make you more tired. That’s because if you change your sleep cycle by two or more hours, you upset your circadian rhythm, that inner clock that regulates your wake and sleep cycles. Your body will think it can sleep later on Monday and you’ll end up groggy all day. The more you can stay consistent with your sleeping and waking times, within sixty minutes, the less tired you’ll feel.

Reprinted with permission from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC, 365 Energy Boosters by Susannah Seton and Sondra Kornblatt is available wherever books are sold.