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Life’s too short to spend sweating the small stuff, even when it masquerades as big stuff – which is most of the time.

Even small doses of pleasure can raise our levels of immune-boosting chemicals.

Every time you commit your energy to one thing, you’re choosing to pull it away from something else. It pays to choose wisely.

Until we better master the art of cultivating renewable, sustainable health and vitality for ourselves, we’ll have a hard time respecting the principles on which all sustainable energy production depends.

Whether you’re determined to achieve a tiny goal or to change your entire life, believing that you can is the first, most important step.

We all have counterproductive reflexes and unconscious beliefs that stand in our way. It makes sense that we develop the courage and wisdom to face them well.

Got a goal that’s not going quite as well as you’d like? Try this two-part formula for adjusting your strategy—and your attitude.

It makes me happy to see that a growing number of us have lost interest in dog pills slathered in peanut butter. We’re hungry, instead, for the unvarnished, nutritious truth.

Life can be messy. Fortunately, spring is a great time to get on top of clutter, gunk and chaos of all kinds.

No matter what you’re trying to accomplish, you need an action plan. Here’s the process I prefer — and that Ocean’s Eleven made famous.

It is strange, perhaps, to open an issue dedicated to helping readers get more done with a caveat about overdoing. But as a person prone to doing just that, I feel it is, um — the right thing to do.

There’s something in the air as we head into this new year.

Instead of just listing the same old resolutions, consider asking yourself some pointed questions about the goals that matter to you.

This is the season of celebration. So let us pause a moment to reflect on all we have to be happy about, and to appreciate all the wonderful gifts the past year has delivered.

Can you turn an OK situation into a surprising source of satisfaction? You never really know until you try.

I think it’s not often enough acknowledged that embracing healthy foods—and avoiding less healthy ones—isn’t necessarily a matter of white-knuckled willpower.

Given the wealth of knowledge concentrated in our gut wisdom, most of us would do well to draw on it more often.

It wasn’t until my early 30s that I decided to try running again. By this time, I had a lot more knowledge under my belt. I also had a secret weapon of sorts — a heart-rate monitor.

First it was strength. Then it was cardio. Next came balance and coordination. Now, at last, it’s all coming together.

Ten years ago, I had this crazy idea: I wanted to create a healthy-living magazine with substance — one that would help change people’s lives and maybe even help change the world.

Know where you want to go? Surround yourself with the role models and support you need for the journey.