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Too much stress will drain your energy, but what is often overlooked is that a certain amount of stress is essential for a healthy, happy life. In moderation, stress sharpens your reflexes, heightens your responses and gives you the energy to cope with demanding and difficult situations. If your life were totally stress-free you wouldn’t have challenges. Life would be predictable. You wouldn’t have to adjust to change. You wouldn’t ever feel pressured. You and everyone else you know would be nice and content. And you’d all be lacking in energy and dying of boredom.

If you want to avoid stress totally you may as well start looking for a coffin. Feeling bored and unchallenged or stuck in a rut is just as draining mentally and emotionally as being burdened down with stress. You need a certain amount of challenge and tension in your life to feel alive. So if you’re lacking in energy, take a careful look at your life and see where you can give yourself greater challenge and stimulation. Perhaps it’s time to learn a new language, review your career or take up a new hobby? You should also pay particular attention to the energy tips on pages 171–74.