Healthy Habits/Goal Setting

Break a habit. Achieve a goal. Transform your life. Here’s a look at the six parts of Prochaska’s stages of change.

Our best fitness tips to help you move well, recover fully, and achieve your fittest life.

Sabbaticals aren’t just for college professors anymore. Many workers are taking time off to pursue a creative project, build a skill, or simply expand their horizons.

These tactics can help you manage the stress that even positive transitions can bring.

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?

Resist the call of the couch! For our basic well-being, we need to get moving.

You’d like your loved ones to be happy and supportive about your positive life transformations. But what if they’re not?

A social-media platform is changing food culture. Are we OK with that?

Morita therapy offers a philosophical, tough-love approach to undoing your own undoings.

The key to sticking with a workout program may be strengthening the “muscle” between your ears.

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.

New Year’s vows to change often bring more pain than actual gain. Here’s how to get real about your good intentions.

We often feel we have to change the world for good things to happen. Maybe we just need to adjust our thinking.

A little shamanic wisdom can help you create the life of your dreams.

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.

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.

Old habits die hard — but reverting to unwanted patterns doesn’t have to sabotage your healthy-living progress.

To create positive change, don’t obsess over specific goals. Focus instead on problem-solving strategies you can adjust as you go.