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How to Build a Spring Morning Routine
Aligning your morning routine with the seasons can boost energy, support well-being, and keep you grounded. Try these ideas for the spring and feel the difference.
How to Make New Habits Stick
You’ve built the healthy habits. Now, here are three tips to develop a maintenance mindset and make them last.
Why Daily-ish Is Good Enough
It’s OK to practice your healthy habits almost every day.
5 Surprising Reasons Why Eating With Others Is Good for Your Health
The rewards of eating with family and friends extend far beyond the dinner table. Learn why it’s worth the effort to sit down and dine with others.
How to Turn Down Food Noise
Interventions to free your mind from obsessing about food.
How to Change Behaviors, Plus the Rule of 17 Seconds
Learn about the intricacies of behavior change and the concept of the “17 seconds rule.”
Struggling With Perfectionism? Try These Strategies to Loosen Its Hold
Feelings of not being good enough can lead to a drive for perfection that can in turn contribute to anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. Learn strategies for finding relief.
5 Tips to Simplify Your Finances
Money is stressful for almost everyone, but creating a few fundamental routines can dramatically reduce financial anxiety.
What Does It Mean to Live a High-Performance Lifestyle?
Two experts delve into their interpretations of a “high-performance lifestyle,” highlighting its core principles of continuous effort, improvement, and growth.
5 Ways Your Phone Habit Impacts Your Body
From tech neck to text claw, here’s how our phone habits affect our bodies.
Finding Your Edge
Learn about Mazza’s journey to becoming a high performer, his insights on fostering growth in others, and why he believes high performance is attainable for everyone.
The Awkwardness Principle
When you’re making a change, feeling uncomfortable is probably a good sign.
23 Ways to Simplify Your Life
Try these practical suggestions for decomplicating your life.
9 Tips to Overcome People-Pleasing
Giving up the people-pleasing habit takes time, but the rewards are myriad. Get started on the path to greater integrity and self-care with these strategies.
How to Build a Winter Morning Routine
Aligning your morning routine with the seasons can boost energy, support well-being, and keep you grounded. Try these ideas for the colder months and feel the difference.
Why Do Some of Us Become People-Pleasers?
People-pleasing can often be trigged by childhood trauma and environmental expectations. Learn more.
The Hidden Costs of Being a People-Pleaser
Resentment and exhaustion are just two hidden costs of people-pleasing. Discover the deeper toll it can take on your psyche.
Festive, Not Frazzled: Relieve Stress in 20 Minutes or Less
Feeling overwhelmed by the holiday hustle and bustle? Whether you have two minutes or 20, the Life Time app offers several tools for relieving that stress.
Stuck in an Awkward Conversation? 11 Tips to Rescue It
A communication expert offers tips for transforming uncomfortable conversations.
5 Ways to Sharpen Your Senses While You Exercise
Embrace your sensory experience — and boost your brain health — by tuning in while working out.
Less Is More
EL‘s editor in chief on how to slow down — and why simplifying is more important than it’s ever been.