Healthy Habits/Goal Setting
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7 Strategies for Navigating Big Life Changes
These tactics can help you manage the stress that even positive transitions can bring.
How a Change of Habit Can Transform Your Life
Our lives are in many ways defined by unconscious habits and ingrained behaviors. How much do you know about the structures that hold you together, and those that hold you down?
10 Habits of Successful Vegetable Eaters
Looking for a game-changing way to boost your health? Eat (way!) more veggies, says functional-medicine pioneer Frank Lipman, MD.
16 Ways to Move More
Resist the call of the couch! For our basic well-being, we need to get moving.
When “You’ve Changed” Feels Like Criticism – Coping With Unsupportive People
You’d like your loved ones to be happy and supportive about your positive life transformations. But what if they’re not?
Has Instagram Changed the Way We Eat?
A social-media platform is changing food culture. Are we OK with that?
Do It Anyway: Overcoming Procrastination With Morita Therapy
Morita therapy offers a philosophical, tough-love approach to undoing your own undoings.
Why Your Fitness Mindset Matters
The key to sticking with a workout program may be strengthening the “muscle” between your ears.
In Praise of Healthy Hobbies
Optimal health means working out and eating well, but it also involves making time for activities like reading, art, and music. New research makes the case for these not-so-trivial pursuits.
The Problem With New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s vows to change often bring more pain than actual gain. Here’s how to get real about your good intentions.
Living with Purpose and Intention
Instead of discipline and perfection, let’s live with more purpose and intention.
How to 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.
Courageous Dreaming
A little shamanic wisdom can help you create the life of your dreams.
What is Mental Performance Training?
Using visualization and meditation techniques, mental performance training helps you to set goals and overcome obstacles, such as negative thinking, to achieve optimal performance. It can also help you to prepare mentally for high-pressure situations.
Designing Your Future Self
You’re the best person to create big changes in your life. But those shifts will happen only if your “future self” is on board.
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.
The Power of Process
To create positive change, don’t obsess over specific goals. Focus instead on problem-solving strategies you can adjust as you go.
6 Food Habits That Age You
These unhealthy eating patterns don’t just trigger weight gain and undermine your energy. They age you from the inside out.
5 Ways to Maintain and Spread Healthy Habits
By now we’ve heard that obesity is contagious. Well, the flip side of that is that healthy habits are contagious, too. Here’s how to build and share those habits with everyone around you.
TRI (HARDER): Fit Goals, Not Fitspo
With the starting line in sight, the big and (seemingly) small benefits of triathlon training are becoming more clear.
How to Begin a Daily Meditation Practice
Ten simple tips for making meditation a part of your life — starting now.