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Taking better care of yourself is the most important thing that you can do to enhance both your performance and your overall life quality. With the right life habits, you can look forward to higher levels of energy, greater focus, increased mood balance, and a bright, and youthful appearance among many other benefits. Best of all, you only need to make a few small and relatively easy changes in order to achieve marked improvements. 

The following are five self-care tips that are guaranteed to have a positive impact on your overall well-being and health:

1. Practice Regular Stress Management

Stress can have an incredibly toxic effect on both your physical and your mental health. Unfortunately, stress management is one of the most overlooked aspects of general self-care. Between working a full-time job, managing a household, staying on top of your bills, and maintaining a variety of personal and professional relationships, you're virtually guaranteed to experience stress on a regular basis. Make an effort to take regular walks, spend quiet time meditating on the things that you're grateful for, practice yoga, or treat yourself to regular massages. You should never wait for stress to boil over before making a concerted effort to deal with it. Practicing good stress management will help you keep your head clear of unnecessary fears, maintain sharp mental focus, and avoid problems with chronic anxiety and depression.

2. Take Good Care of Your Skin

The skin is your body's largest organ. It is also subject to the greatest amount of wear. Make sure that you're regularly using sun protection, even when you're indoors. Exposure to natural light can occur just as easily inside of a building as it can at the beach, park, or other outdoor areas. Drink plenty of water to keep your skin hydrated, and regularly exfoliate your body to eliminate dead, dry, and damaged skin cells, and to stimulate the proliferation of new and healthy cells. You should also use a moisturizer on a daily basis. While drinking adequate amounts of water will hydrate your skin from the inside out, a quality moisturizer will seal this natural hydration in, while additionally offering sun protection and other benefits. People who regularly moisturize are often able to stave off the earliest signs of facial aging compared to those who do not.

3. Eat to Fuel Your Body

Focus less on eating foods that taste good and start looking to consume options that give you the greatest amount of energy. The best meals and snacks won't leave you tired and sluggish after you eat them. Target fresh, natural foods that have a high nutritional value such as fresh produce, whole grains, fish, lean meats, and organic dairy products. Limit your intake of packaged, processed, and heavily refined foods, and avoid exceeding your calorie needs each day.

4. Get Plenty of Rest

At every stage of life, it is important to get a minimum of eight hours of sleep each night. While you might think that your hectic schedule doesn't allow this, getting adequate rest can make you far more focused, and far more productive. You'll get more done and achieve better quality results with sufficient sleep than you will if you rush through your days feeling exhausted and disoriented.

5. Engage in Regular Exercise to Increase and Improve Energy, Stamina, and Health

Routine exercise is the cornerstone of excellent self-care. The average modern lifestyle is a very sedentary one and this means that most people have to purposefully pencil physical activity in. Sign up for classes at a local gym, start walking to work, or spend your lunch break doing stretches and squats. Exercise stimulates the production of mood-elevating and mood-balancing chemicals, even as it improves circulation, builds muscle, stimulates fat burning, and increases respiratory endurance. Working out just three to four times each week will invariably make you look better and feel better all-around.