19. Get a booster shot. If it's been over 10 years from your last one, you won't be protected from diphtheria, pertussis and potentially fatal tetanus, which you can pick up from animal or insect bites, burns, splinters and rusty nails. It's especially essential for travellers.
20. Make love. It reduces stress, burns calories and can boost your immune system – not to mention your emotional and physical connection to your spouse. Need tips for re-igniting the passion? You can find 10 great ones here.
21. When you leave for the day, really check out. Bringing workplace dramas home can raise your stress level. If you have to, use a ritual to close your workday: De-compress at the gym, blast a certain blowing-off-steam playlist – or if you work in a noisy workplace, enjoy pure silence or a nature soundtrack – during your commute home.
22. Start the workweek off by putting a bowl of pre-washed apples and pears on your desk. Their proximity will encourage you to eat them (not head for the office vending machine) whenever you feel peckish.
23. Make it your goal to compete a charitable run, walk or bike ride. "Cause fitness" is a huge fitness trend. Having a goal will motivate you to train, while raising money for charity will give you a huge emotional lift.
24. Be less of a control freak. Your kids don't clean their rooms to your standards. Your husband doesn't load the dishwasher properly. So be it. Your family life and marriage will improve if you become more selective about when to micro-manage, er, "advise."
25. Buy a stainless-steel water bottle. You'll save money and stay hydrated without resorting to pop, calorific sports beverages or water packaged in disposable water bottles – which recent studies have shown can leach endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
26. Cut a toxic friend or relative loose. Life's too short to allow frenemies or emotionally abusive relatives get your stomach in a knot. Cherish time spent with people who bring out the best in you. Your emotional health will improve - and so will your weekends.
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