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How to Stop Self-Sabotaging Your Diet
You’re talking to yourself again. But what are you saying? Here’s how to translate your food thoughts into healthier actions.
The Strength to Sit Still: A Meditation Retreat
Fitness buff Jen Sinkler tests her limits — at a mountaintop meditation retreat for beginners.
Getting Things Done: “Process”
Learn from productivity expert David Allen how to organize your to-do lists based on what is doable and worth doing now.
Take a Break
Random moments of “unproductive” time don’t just make you healthier, happier, and more resilient. They help you work smarter, too.
The Happiness Hypothesis
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt filters time-tested philosophy about happiness through a modern lens to help you access the good life — from the inside out.
Boost Your Confidence With Your Posture
How sitting up straight can boost your self confidence.
What Is the Good-Life Ratio?
Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson, PhD, shows how the right ratio of ratio of positive-to-negative emotions can affect happiness.
Rethinking Resolutions
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by resolution season, senior editor Courtney Lewis Opdahl found some insights in our archives to help.
How to Envision Your Goals: A Guide for Creating a Fulfilling Life
Bring your grandest dreams and goals into reality using simple words and pictures.
Getting Things Done: “Collect”
In the first installment of a five-part series on David Allen’s organizational system, Getting Things Done, the chaotic jumble of things competing for our attention comes into clear focus.
The Power of Habit
New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg explores the scientific research about habitual behaviors and what it reveals about how to change them. Plus: How to build healthy habits.
Behind the Scenes With Lauren Zander (Video)
Learn more about our January cover subject, Lauren Zander, and her tips for setting goals that create lasting change.
Lauren Zander’s Tough Love
Celebrity life coach Lauren Zander knows that the first step to changing your life is opening your heart.
Reimagining Creativity
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ― Erich Fromm
How Visualization Can Make You Physically Stronger
Studies show the effect of mental strength on physical strength.
4 Steps to Connecting with Spirit
Let me be one more supportive soul to tell you (and me) that no matter how far away or blunted our lives feel from the emanation and presence of a deeper consciousness and energy, spirit is always at work and play within us
Whose Voice Is That In Your Head?
Ideas to help you silence that voice in your head and take your life back.
Prioritize Happiness Over Possessions for a Stronger Marriage
Why couples who focus on mutual core values are happier.
Refine Your Life
Discover Pilar Gerasimo’s practical framework for fine-tuning any part of your life.
Avoiding the Fall Funk
I shouldn’t be surprised and yet every year I begin October thinking I’m going to be able to outwit the darkness.