We’ve all been there, staring at the clock and wondering how it can be showing 9.30am when we’ve been sitting behind our desk for what feels like hours.

Rather than mainline caffeine, try these foods instead:

1. Salmon. Fatty fishes are excellent for promoting productivity, and salmon is one of the best. Enjoy it in your lunch time sarnie or on a bed of leaves.

2. Berries. Snack on antioxidant-rich foods like berries which are excellent for increasing memory. The darker the berry, the higher the antioxidant property it has.

3. Dark chocolate. The magnesium in this sweet treat is a natural stress reliever.

If you’re trying to conceive, how many of these faux pas are you aware of?

•Check your weight. If you’re significantly over or underweight, it can reduce your chances of conceiving.

•Eat a balanced diet. This is a diet that contains the essential vitamins: folic acid (for the baby) and B vitamins (important for both ovulation and foetal development).

•Avoid Vitamin A.

•Cut down or avoid swordfish, shark and marlin and eat no more than two tuna steaks a week.

•Quit smoking and reduce alcohol intake.

•Up your sex levels.

If you’re committed to living a cruelty free life, knowing what you should put in your shopping basket in advance is going to make the transition much easier.

•Swap dairy for dairy free. Try oat, almond, coconut or soya milk.

•Exchange meat for quorn. A cheap, environmentally friendly alternative that is packed with more protein than the animal kind.

•Use soaked chia seeds or mashed bananas in your bakes instead of eggs to bind the batter.

•Try frozen bananas as an alternative to ice cream.

•Pick agave syrup over honey.

•Eat nutritional yeast in lieu of cheese.

•Make your pudding with cashew cream instead of double cream.

If, like the vast majority of us, you’re a fully paid up member of Generation Rent, there is no reason why you can’t turn your rented house into a home, just because you don’t own it.

Here are 3 ideas for you to implement and create a space that is uniquely yours.

1. Add a splash of colour with bold furnishings rather than wall paint.

2. Invest in freestanding flexible storage options like stackable, moveable wallshelves (that don’t require wall fastenings to keep them in place – win win).

3. Introduce your personality through plants. If you can’t have a pet, have a houseplant. Or several.

Quality of sleep is more important than duration of sleep. The easiest way to get good quality sleep is to get in tune with your body clock. Interestingly, our bodies do different things at different times during our sleep cycles: REM sleep is linked to learning and memory, whereas growth hormones are released during deep sleep.

So if you want to exact all the benefits of sleep, understand the different sleep phases and ensure you get adequate of each.

If you are always groggy when your alarm goes off, invest in a bodyclock alarm clock or app that will wake you at the end of a sleep cycle, as close to your desired get up time as possible.