If your energy level is stretched to the breaking point and you feel just plain tired, it might be time to make some simple changes. No matter what your age, these easy but powerful tips for increasing your energy can really help.

Contrary to what you might think, regular exercise doesn't make you more tired; it actually keeps you energetic. That's because it raises serotonin and beta-endorphin levels, which boost energy and give you a feeling of well-being. Just a little aerobic activity can do wonders: It can smooth out your emotions, improve the way you think, sooth your nerves and lower your blood pressure! You say you don't have time to exercise? Maybe you just need to alter what you think of as exercise: Even taking the stairs, weeding the garden or parking your car further from the mall entrance and walking qualifies.

Always be looking for ways to improve your lifetime happiness. People can always improve their life somehow, even in very small ways. Keep working towards goals, and stay hopeful.

Happiness always involves other people to some extent, so be attentive to keeping good relationships with people and building new relationships with others. Sometime what you are looking forward to doing after your hard work is over at the end of the work day is what keeps you motivated and feeling energetic to do your work in the first place.

Work your mind and your body, but try to find the right ratio of work to rest and play so you are neither under working nor overworking.

Sometimes, being sluggish and lethargic can come from not just having interest in whatever you’re doing. So why not try to shake things up a bit and try to do something that you’ve always wanted to do. If you’ve always wanted to learn karate or gardening, start doing it now. You’ll be amazed how your enthusiasm carries over to your other chores.

Worrying too much bogs you down. Try to think more positively on how things will work out. Worrying just makes you sulk. So have a positive outlook on life and get that extra boost.

You are capable of quickly achieving excellent results in your work (this favors the increase of the level of your expectations), but by looking for exciting new risks you can quickly lose what you have achieved. In the excitement of your pursuit of risks you sometimes lose your sense of reality and may unwittingly overstep the bounds between moral and immoral, and even between legal and unlawful. You should keep yourself under control in order to prevent this. If you long for something, you should ask yourself "Do I really need it ?" It may be that your goal, although it seems reasonable in and of itself, can actually be an excuse for your attraction to risk. Do not let yourself be deceived. Keep in mind and be wary of your inclination towards an enterprise which has little chance for success. Learn to decode your aspirations and be able to stop in time in your pursuit of success.

You want to take your time when drawing an academic study building up slowly to the finished product. Taking shortcuts reduces the educational value of these exercises, which, if done in the traditional manner, can take an average of five continuous days to complete. Try to be clear about your intentions when doing an académie. Are you trying to learn something about values and proportions? If so, once you fulfill that goal, should you spend your time trying to feather and fill in every grain of the paper? Or, at your current level of competence, is it a better use of your time to start another drawing to further your abilities of visual perception?