A Mindful Approach to the New Year
Instead of focusing on perfection and hard-hitting goals this year, perhaps set an intention to create a life that is happier and more sustainable.
Enjoy exploring these Experience Life articles created and curated to set yourself on the path to a more authentic and fulfilling life in the New Year.Use the following links to navigate to your section of interest:
Healthy Mindset | Daily Practices & Healthy Habits | Expanding Yourself | Healthy Relationships | Relationship With Food | Joyful Movement
Establish a Healthy Mindset
Cultivating a Beginner’s Mind
How might life be different if we approached it without assumptions and preconceptions, without knowing anything at all.
How to Cultivate an Open Mindset
Feeling hermetically sealed in your own opinions? Opening your mind to other viewpoints can deepen your personal wisdom and broaden your horizons.
Be the Person You Want to Find
Looking for that special someone? Wishing you could change the person you’re with? You may need to start by taking a good long look in the mirror.
Coming to Terms With Reality
Are you being held hostage by your negative thoughts? Byron Katie and “The Work” will help you discover how to negotiate a truce.
Change Your Mindset
We often feel we have to change the world for good things to happen. Maybe we just need to adjust our thinking.
Daily Practices & Healthy Habit Formation
How to Begin a Daily Meditation Practice
Ten simple tips for making meditation a part of your life — starting now.
How to Build Better Habits
Make the most of your finite willpower.
How to Stop Falling Back Into Old Habits
Old habits die hard — but reverting to unwanted patterns doesn’t have to sabotage your healthy-living progress.
How to Keep a Gratitude Journal
Simple tips for recording the joys — and challenges — that enhance your life.
7 Healthy-Living Experts Share Their Go-To Daily Habits
Looking to make a healthy habit change? Take inspiration from Life Time experts and their daily non-negotiables.
Do It Anyway: Overcoming Procrastination With Morita Therapy
Morita therapy offers a philosophical, tough-love approach to undoing your own undoings.
What Is Behavior Design?: Understanding How Our Environment Shapes Our Behavior
Does your living environment support — or sabotage — your self-improvement efforts?
Expanding Yourself
How to Overcome Your Upper Limits
Each one of us carries ingrained, unconscious ideas of just how happy and successful we can be. But by learning to identify and transcend these self-imposed “Upper Limits,” we can expand our potential for happiness and abundance in extraordinary ways.
How To Reinvent Yourself: 10 Tips for Transformative Change
Want to move beyond your life’s current limits? Shift your motive from self-presentation to service.
Who Is the ‘Real’ You?
Clinging to outdated notions of who you are can keep you from reaching your full potential. Here’s how to embrace your true self.
How to Make a Vision Board
Clarify your direction for this year (and beyond) with this inspiring art project.
How to Dream Big
Pursuing your dreams means leaping early and often and making bold moves.
How to Harness Your Dreams
There’s no reason to put off your grandest goals and desires until someday. Three life coaches offer guidance to help you achieve your dreams.
9 Ways to Find Your Greatness and Fulfill Your Potential
A leading life coach offers tips on making every day extraordinary.
Creating Deeper, More Meaningful Relationships
5 Skills for Authentic Communication
How to have deeper conversations.
Compassionate Communication
When we pay attention to the words we use and the way we use them, we improve the odds of strengthening and deepening our most meaningful relationships.
How to Build Empathy and Compassion in Your Community
There’s a big difference between cursory cordiality and true benevolence. Our experts make the case for spreading deep kindness in your community.
5 Ways to Be a Compassionate Listener
Transform your relationships by changing the way you listen.
The Joy of Home Gatherings
The social equivalent of soul food, cozy home gatherings and small-group entertainments are drawing us closer – to simple pleasures and to each other.
How to Have More Honest Conversations With Your Friends
The surprising ways that honest, authentic dialogue can deepen your friendships.
How to Make Amends
Psychologist Tamar Chansky, PhD, on how to gracefully say you’re sorry.
How to Navigate a Strained Relationship
Our differences don’t have to keep us polarized. Try this expert advice for forging unexpected connections.
How to Stop Projecting
These tips can help you stop projecting your less-flattering traits onto other people.
Creating a Healthier Relationship With Food
Conscious Eating
Maybe the thing your appetite craves isn’t more food, but more attention. Here’s how to eat intuitively.
6 Ways to Simplify and Improve Your Relationship With Food
Tips for using your senses and instincts to eat healthy.
How to Raise Your Food “Pleasure Quotient”
Expert advise on how to overcome feelings of frustration or shame when it comes to eating.
The Metabolic Power of Thought
How we think about food matters as much as what we eat.
The Joy of Eating Well
Here are tips on how to cultivate a healthy attitude towards foods — and get rid of the “good food”/”bad food” syndrome.
Joyful Movement
How Positive Emotions Supercharge the Effects of Exercise
Psychologist Kelly McGonigal, PhD, on how a joyful approach to exercise can help people reach their fitness goals more easily.
25 Ways to Make Time for Fitness
Too busy to work out? Doubtful. The truth: Finding moments to move is entirely within your grasp.
How Does Play Make Fitness More Effective?
Incorporating fun into your workout can make it more inspiring and effective — just like when you were a kid.
The Power of Play
Why cutting loose is so good for our mental and physical health — and how to do it more often.
The Real-Fitness Manifesto
Our best fitness tips to help you move well, recover fully, and achieve your fittest life.