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Celebrate Your Fitness Accomplishments
Before you rush into setting health and fitness goals for the year ahead, stop and appreciate what you’ve already accomplished.
How to Stop Emotional Shopping
Do you have the urge to splurge? Emotion-induced shopping may seem harmless, but letting your feelings take over your wallet could end up costing you more than money.
How to Be More Grateful
Boost your health, hope and happiness with a powerful dose of gratitude.
Feed Your Friends: 2 Easy Dishes for Your Next Gathering
Whether you’re entertaining dozens or planning an intimate celebration for a few of your favorite pals, there’s an art to creating experiences both you and your guests will enjoy.
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.
How to Overcome the Busy Addiction
Life in the fast lane might be exciting, but are you living quickly at the expense of living deeply? Learn how to say no to busyness and yes to what really matters.
How to Make Driving Less Stressful
Does getting behind the wheel make you anxious or angry? Embark on the road to relaxation with these commute-improving tips.
The Magic of Mentoring
Mentor or be mentored. Either way, you gain valuable wisdom and experience – and a meaningful personal connection. The best thing about mentoring? There’s something in it for everyone.
The Long View: How to Plan for the Future
Planning for the next month is one thing. Planning for 20 years down the road is entirely different. Here’s why shaping your chosen future is most definitely worth the stretch, and how you can get started, now.
How to Go Caving
Discover the best way to go caving, including guided tours and caving clubs, and learn the seven rules of caving.
Why Taking Time Off is Essential for Your Health and Happiness
Think time off is a waste of time? For the sake of your health and happiness, you just might want to reconsider.
Nature Quest: The Health Benefits of Spending Time Outdoors
Fresh air. Open sky. The beauty of the horizon. Most of us wish we could spend more time outside enjoying nature’s gifts. Now, a growing body of research is giving us even more compelling reasons to heed those desires. Discover why time spent in nature is time wisely invested in personal well-being.
Simple Strategies to Find Adventure Every Day
Has your life become a bit too routine and predictable? Maybe you’re due for a dose of the extraordinary.
The Vital Role of Your Skin in Overall Health
In our obsessive quest to improve its superficial traits, we often forget that our skin is our body’s largest organ — and an incredibly hard worker. Discover how your skin reflects and affects the state of your health, and what you can do to keep your skin looking and feeling its best.
See the Connection: Understanding the Relationship Between Your Health and the Health of the Planet
Your health depends on a complex, connect-the-dots network of variables that make up your ecosystem and the systems that sustain it. Discover the keys to keeping both you and your planet healthy — by following nature’s models, and honoring life’s connections.
How Neighborhood Design Can Affect Your Health and Well-Being
Could your neighborhood be contributing to your weight gain? Researchers are digging deeper into evidence that suggests where you live may be essential to attaining good health, fitness, and personal well-being.
How Your Media Intake Affects Your Well-Being
The images, sounds and words you absorb can influence your well-being and alter your view of reality. Is it time you reconsidered your media-intake habits?
Hot on the Trail: Trail Running
If the thought of pounding the pavement makes you want to head for the hills, trail running may offer profound appeal. Find out why millions of runners are taking to the trails.
Tips for Creating a Toxin-Free Home
Eco-friendly home furnishings and building materials can help make your home a healthy one.
How Fitness and Health Can Boost Your Career Success
Whether you work for a living or live for your work, managing your physical health and fitness may be more critical to your career than you realized. Find out why the shape you’re in can make or break your success.