17 Easy Ways to Simplify Your Life
Wanda Urbanska shares some of her favorites tips for simple living.
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The Skillful Life
When it comes to enjoying a healthy, happy life, good intentions will get you just so far. You also need practical skills in a variety of areas — from health and fitness to relationships and finance. Here’s an action plan for assessing and building the skill sets that matter most to you right now.
5 Ways to Practice Happiness
When it comes to the quest for greater happiness, waiting and hoping are out. Learning and practicing are in. Here’s how to create your own happy reality — starting now.
How to Simplify the Holidays
With all the scheduling and traveling, errands, and obligations, the holidays can feel overwhelming. Here’s how to simplify your season of celebration – and rediscover the peaceful soul of the season.
Six Packs and Sex Lives
Thoughts on Experience Life and the quirks that make it appealing to more than 3 million readers. No gimmicks, no hype, no kidding.
Resolutions Workshop: One Step at a Time
Lofty goals all begin with a single step. Here’s how to plan — and sustain — the small changes that matter.
Relationship Revival: How to Renew A Relationship
Even the best relationships can get dulled by time and drained by stress. Happily, there are simple ways to renew your bond — no matter how long you’ve been together.
Resolutions Workshop: Action!
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.
7 Ways to Eat More Mindfully
Strategies for learning how to eat with awareness.
6 “Healthy” Eating Choices to Rethink
If you’re committed to healthy eating, it’s time to start investigating whether your current food choices are as wholesome as you’ve been led to believe.
Turbo Shopping: Tips to Help You Save Time at the Grocery Store
Your aisle-by-aisle guide to a fast, healthy grocery run.
How Does Sleep Influence Weight Gain?
New research shows that sleep significantly influences metabolism, appetite, and weight management. Could getting more shuteye help you ward off excess pounds?
The Creative Habit
Twyla Tharp, one of the world’s most prolific and innovative choreographers, offers wisdom on cultivating and sharing your own creative gifts.
PUMPING IRONY: Aging and Uncertainty
A new book offers sage advice on the value of embracing the unknown as we age.
COMING CLEAN: Pinterest Pressures
Social-media platforms offer a trove of ideas — and insecurity for my perfectionist mindset when it comes to decorating the nursery.
COMING CLEAN: The Pizza Incident
Pizza! Why do you tempt me so? Senior editor Courtney Lewis Opdahl faces the lure of the stuffed crust.
How Doing Nothing Boosts Creativity
We tend to think of inspiration as the arrival of new ideas coming to us from the outside. But inspiration also emerges from inside of us – very often when we’ve eliminated the distractions that keep it at bay.
How to Harness Your Dreams
There’s no reason to put off your grandest goals and desires until someday. Three life coaches offer guidance to help you achieve your dreams.
Quiet Sports
There’s a quiet subculture of outdoor enthusiasts who prefer muscle power to motorized recreation — and they’re beginning to make some noise.
The Way of the Healthy Person
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.