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Maintain Healthy Relationships
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Our interactions with others can affect our mental health.
Conversely, negative relationships can create toxic situations filled with conflict and stress.
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Disconnecting from these unhealthy interactions and fostering healthy ones is vital to personal well-being.
The career we choose even affects our identity and shapes how we feel about ourselves.
Taking part in other gratifying activities, such ascharity workand hobbies, can also help.
Engaging inflow-producing activities, or activities that take our complete focus, can infuse more enjoyment into our lives.
Plug Energy Drains
Several things can drain our energy throughout the day.
For some, it may be a disrespectful co-worker or anunresolved conflict with a family member.
These types of stressors have a way of accumulating and weighing us down.
This makes learning toembrace leisure timeimportant for an improved quality of life.
Ways to do this include:
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