The skills you learn in your meditation practice - relaxing the body, becoming aware of the breath, resting the mind - are valuable not only during the actual time you are sitting quietly and meditating.  This was brought home to me when I watched a video of Martin Aylward, whose retreat centre in France was recommended to me by a dear friend. 
He makes the point that in Eastern monastic traditions, people don't "work" in the conventional sense; normally they also abstain from sex, and they don't have much to do with money, either.  This gives them all the time and space they need for their inward journey. 
Most of us, though, need to follow synchronize our spiritual path with our daily lives: working, being involved in relationships, paying the bills.  So don't think of your meditation practice as something you only do when you're sitting alone in silence. The very skills required for meditation, and the awareness and insights that arise from your formal practice, can transform your daily life. 

Last April I wrote about the five Tibetan Rites, and here I am again to say that they are very reliable!  Again I had stopped doing them for a while, but over the past couple of months my energy has been really low (so much so that I went to the doc and part of the problem was - ta-da - major vitamin D deficiency! Fellow northern Europeans, take note!). 
Along with resting and breathing and a homeopathic remedy from my doc, I decided to start the five Tibetans again, and to re-read THE book on them, The Eye of Revelation.  And things are looking up.  It's important to do them slowly; see Ellen Woods' excellent video. 
I did a workshop for my students on the 5 Tibetans last year? the year before? And one of them has been practicing them faithfully ever since - she looks and feels fabulous and full of energy.