It’s 4 pm. Do you know where your energy’s gone? You probably expect to feel that late afternoon drag, but you don’t always have to. Turns out, some of your regulat habits may be sneakily zapping your zip. Fix some or all of these energy stealers, and you just may be feeling brighter this afternoon. Energy zapper being addicted to email isn’t being wired to the hit email, voice mail, IM, BlackBerry supposed to boost productivity, freeing up your energy? More often, the opposite is true. If you continually halt what your’re doing to answer email, check voice mail, and attend to a thousand other beeps and blips your attention becomes diluted, which leaves you feeling depleted.

There are two things going on here, the brain needs a lot of physical and mental energy to multitask, which gets drained, and continually redirecting your attention fron the Black Berry to other stimuli siphons more energy and distracts your brain further. Energy fix switch off electronic gadgets during your most productive work hours, which for most peopletend to be in the morning, try to limit yourself to checking it once every hour, instead of hopping to whenever it beeps. If something pops into your mind that you need to remember call back your mom, email the soccer coach about the snack schedule, write it down and take care of it later.