Your essential guide to beating Blue Monday

Today is Blue Monday – the most depressing day of the year – due to a combination of winter illness, post-Christmas melancholy and the fact Blue Monday was made up by a travel firm in 2005 to get some free PR.

Want to beat it? Here’s how.

And here’s 6 more tips because you can’t get enough help on Blue Monday, right?

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