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Not only are you going to thank me after reading this article and seeing the response that you get from your partner, you'll also want to thank me for saving you money. Although many of us enjoy receiving physical gifts, the gifts that I am presenting to you today aren't physical objects and don't cost a dime.

Whether you're in a relationship with a man or a woman, these gifts are gender neutral. So, let's get right into it!

1. Focusing on the positive: Have you ever beaten yourself up over something you did or felt that you could have done better? Have you ever had an insecurity that nagged at you and drained your energy? Of course you haven't because you're an alien.

Whether you’re a pro-athlete or you haven’t run, hit or touched a ball since your high school days, you have no idea how your abilities can dramatically improve overnight—literally! From buzzing around as a parent to getting more out of your regular workouts, getting good sleep can be all the difference you need to improve your days.

Most people don’t realize how significant a role sleep plays in daytime performance. Research regarding sleep and athletics is gaining more attention than ever and many new findings are coming to light.

Do you find yourself feeling empty despite all the cookies, cakes, and fun of life?

Maybe you feel like a failure because baking cookies with the kids is annoying, shopping leads to debt guilt, and shame from that work party due to things said after one too many mimosas. The things that break up our day-to-day life that are meant to bring us fun, often bring their share of downsides with them.

Intimacy develops in all of our relationships when we are able to be honest with ourselves, honest with others, and express our vulnerability. Intimacy is often considered as a sentiment shared only by couples or in romantic relationships, but all of our relationships have varying levels of intimacy associated with them dependent on the level of honesty and vulnerability we are willing to exchange. Intimacy is the fiber that connects us to people. When we feel disconnected from ourselves and from others, it is usually intimacy and our intimate connections that need our attention and focus to bring us back into the very desirable state of intimate connection with others.

My smartphone rings with a soothing "uplift" tone so I can start my day on a positive note. Yes, I know all about not keeping your phone by your bed or using it for an alarm, but so far I am not sleep-texting or trolling Facebook at 3 a.m. By the time most of us hit the pillow at night we feel like we’re in a deficit. It’s time to stop starting the day feeling behind.

Jade Teta, ND, CSCS and the founder and creator of Metabolic Effect, as well as Time Millionaires, has coined a state he calls "busyness without business." He described it this way in the July-August 2013 IDEA Fitness Journal and I believe it applies to any aspect of our life.

Solution-focused language and thinking are different from traditional ways of thinking about and discussing problems in a relationship. A solution-focused marriage is a marriage based on the positive aspects of your relationship, with conversations geared toward bringing out the very best in your spouse, not just reducing or addressing each others' flaws.

Problem Focus Creates More Problems
Many marriages today fall into a rut where problems and struggles become pervasive and dominate conversations and moods. The stressors and tasks from our jobs and the responsibilities of running a family and household become all we talk about.

Multitasking in our technology-overloaded lives is a given. Many of us still believe in the myth that we are more productive when we multitask, but research proves us wrong. Single tasking, one focused assignment after the other, is the most effective method for accomplishment. Daily juggling dilutes, depletes, depresses and oh that stress! But it’s not over. How many of you take your smartphones to bed with you? So why do we still multitask?