Healthy Habits/Goal Setting

Frustrated with doing the same old thing, day after day? Here's how to wake up and break free.

Looking to reach some major goals this year? These practical, right-now steps can help you build the momentum you need to make steady progress — starting today.

Athletic fantasies become reality at these sports-immersion schools.

Lofty goals all begin with a single step. Here’s how to plan — and sustain — the small changes that matter.

Is your resolve dissolving in the midst of setbacks and challenges? Here’s how to spot the obstacles blocking your way — and then put them behind you.

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

You've crafted your New Year's resolutions with care. Now comes the tricky part: translating intention into action — ideally, the ongoing kind. For this, you need more than a wing and a prayer. You need pragmatic support systems and the good sense to put them to work.

Stretch your limits. Embrace your chosen future.

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.

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.

If you build it, he will come. That line, made legendary by the 1989 film Field of Dreams, still resonates with a lot of people. I think that's because it says everything about what we instinctively know to be true about pursuing our own dreams.

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.

If you’ve been exhausted and bouncing a lot of energetic checks lately, the following tips may help you rebalance your bottom line.