Healthy Habits/Goal Setting

Determined to get into better shape? Don't drive yourself to exhaustion: Coach yourself to satisfaction — and real results that last.

Stretch your limits. Embrace your chosen future.

Good health, at core, is less a destination than life-enhancing journey. But if there is any clear path toward the promised land of healthy living, it begins not on any treadmill or diet plan, but on the fertile ground of our own thoughts, assumptions and beliefs.

Gearing up to write another mega-list of ways to make yourself better? Don't! Instead, chart your course toward real goal mastery.

Imagine if everything went the way you wanted: your workouts, your relationships, your grandest career ambitions. Visioning can bring your life goals into clearer focus – and help you make them a reality.

Do you look to sugar and caffeine for a lift? Need 'em to get through the day? Here's why these well-known stimulants may be more than your system can handle.

Ready to have your best year ever? Two of the country's top coaches weigh in with advice on getting liftoff for the next phase of your life.

Faced with an important task, it's not uncommon to come up against a wall of resistance. In The War of Art, author Steven Pressfield tells you how to break through.

For this year's Resolutions Workshop, we gathered up four of our favorite personal-development experts and asked them to weigh in with how — and how not — to go about crafting New Year's resolutions. They wound up recasting the whole resolutions process and sketching out a more successful, sustainable course for personal change.

Remember those resolutions you made six months ago? Maybe you'd rather not. But why forgive and forget when you can fix and forge ahead? We'll show you how.

Designing your best self takes vision. Becoming your best self takes guts. Here's how to do both — with confidence.