How to Sharpen Your Attention Span
Forget multitasking. Forget autopilot. The biggest rewards come from skillfully focusing our attention on just one thing at a time.
Earth-Friendly Forays
Outdoor excursions restore and rejuvenate your body, but if you travel with the environment in mind, your vacation can also help restore some of the world's most pristine wilderness.
What Is Nordic Walking?
Discover one of the world's fastest-growing and easiest-to-learn fitness routines: Nordic walking.
Try It, You’ll Like It
So much of what we do, we do automatically. Because it’s easy, or it’s there, or because it’s just what people do.
Good Directions
Over the past year, many individuals and businesses have gotten more interested in “going green” - increasing their energy efficiency, reducing their chemical usage, shrinking their carbon footprints, and so on. And there are certainly plenty of good reasons for this.
Right on Schedule: 2 Healthy and Easy Recipes from Jacques Pépin
Too busy to cook? Not if Jacques Pépin has his way.
How to Cook With Lentils: Recipes, Techniques, and More
These nutritious legumes are versatile, delicious and easy to prepare.
How to Cultivate an Open Mindset
Feeling hermetically sealed in your own opinions? Opening your mind to other viewpoints can deepen your personal wisdom and broaden your horizons.
How to Take a Sabbatical From Work
An extended break from work can improve your health, happiness — even your career performance. And it can be done.
Balancing Act: Cheryl Richardson
Life coach and author Cheryl Richardson explains why taking care of business first requires taking care of you.
How to Change Your Perception of Stress and Use It to Your Advantage
Tired of feeling victimized by stress? Learn how to transform it into something manageable — an perhaps even make it your friend.
Striking a Balance Between Work and Life
Most of us know we work too much and rest too little. We long for balance. But with the pressures and pace of modern life always at our back, how do we step off this crazy merry-go-round? Here, we outline the top three barriers to achieving work-life balance — and offer practical wisdom for overcoming them.
Correcting Muscle Imbalances: 4 Exercises to Combat the Effects of Sitting All Day
Muscle imbalances caused by too much sitting, typing and monitor gazing can set up chronic problems throughout the body. Are work-related imbalances throwing your body out of whack?
Why the Warm-Up and Cool-Down are Essential to Your Workout
Are you skipping your warm-up or cool-down? You may be squandering fitness results and making your workouts harder than they have to be.
4 Tips to Bring Fun Back to Your Fitness Routine
Routines – even healthy ones – have a way of becoming, well, routine. Here's how to put the fun back into your fitness experience.
Are You Overexercising? Find Your Just-Right Fitness Routine
When it comes to exercise, the more, the better . . . right? Not necessarily. Finding your own fitness sweet spot is a balancing act.
Far From Perfect
One of the great joys of editing this magazine is striving (albeit sometimes clutzily) to walk its wonderful talk.
Worthy Pursuit
When I heard we were focusing on life balance this month, I said: Great! I can talk about that for hours!
How to Stay Fit When Life Gets Busy
In the context of other life priorities — such as career and family — sometimes our workout plans have to give a little. But how much, and for how long?
How to Make a Fitness Plan
Determined to get into better shape? Don't drive yourself to exhaustion: Coach yourself to satisfaction — and real results that last.
Eat, Drink and Weigh Less
Science has rejected fad diets once and for all and is now spreading the good word: Eating plenty of fresh, whole foods is the key to sustainable weight loss – and to feeling great.