Ready, Set, Recharge! 24 Ways to Boost Your Energy and Your Mood

Laura Doss

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By Joanne Chen

Your goal: Work less, play more, feel great. Our guide to the good times will do wonders for your body, mind, and spirit.

Hang with Happy People

Just being near a positive person is enough to make you smile: Having a friend with a sunny disposition living within a mile of you increases the chances of your being happy by 25 percent, according to a study from the University of California, San Diego. Researchers suspect that happiness is contagious; glass-half-full types tend to be nicer to everyone around them, which makes those people pleasant, and so on. Catch the smiley vibe by regularly joining your most cheerful friends for a run.

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callis11 wrote:

Very true. Behaviour breaths behaviour.

9/3/2012 05:06:01 PM Report Abuse

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hughesmi3607329 wrote:

Dear leremita1: Thanks for the tip!!!! That is soooooo much easier.

9/1/2010 10:07:37 AM Report Abuse

tmberry2009 wrote:

tmberri I agree with putting the slide show on one page, it takes to long to click every slide.

8/25/2010 10:36:30 AM Report Abuse

mjones10128 wrote:

God! That makes it so much easier than clicking on slide after slide...

8/16/2010 04:13:42 PM Report Abuse

leremita1 wrote:

Click "Print All Slides" and you'll see all of them at once. Love these very simple suggestions. I think I'll send them to folks at work!

8/16/2010 11:32:38 AM Report Abuse

hecm1974167 wrote:

I agree having to click 25 times to see the entire list is irritating to say the least..can't they be put on one or two pages...listed in sequence..sure would be more usable and CERTAINLY more enjoyable..

8/16/2010 10:25:54 AM Report Abuse

dawnerz1 wrote:

msjeni11 - if you click "Print all pages" it won't actually print, but it will set it up so you can read the whole article as one long page.

8/16/2010 10:01:05 AM Report Abuse

MSJENI11 wrote:

Could you maybe put these things on ONE page/link so we don't have to keep clicking 25 times to see the entire list?

8/16/2010 09:46:25 AM Report Abuse