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Take a few minutes of quiet meditation before moving on to the next thing. Michelle Blakely, a personal trainer and the founder of Blakely Fit studio in Chicago, Illinois, even has a way to carve out quiet space in a crowded gym. "I've found that if you lie on a towel with your eyes closed and some ear buds in, people leave you alone," she says. "They think you're asleep."