Suddenly the tail lights of the car in front of me are brighter and closer than just a few seconds before. Instantly, I moved my foot to the brake pedal. I did it automatically. I did it without ...

Breaking a bad habit can feel like swimming against a current. You know it isn’t serving you, but your brain defaults to it anyway. A bad habit is a learned behavior that’s performed automatically in ...

Maybe you bite your nails or tug at your hair. Or, you’re drinking more than you’d like or checking your phone way too often. We all have habits that can seem to take over our lives, and despite ...

Dr. Bethany Cook, PsyD, MT-BC, is a licensed clinical psychologist and author of For What It’s Worth: A Perspective on How to Thrive and Survive Parenting. She's a sought after therapist and quoted ...

Did you make any resolutions this new year? If you did, are you keeping to them? Well done if you are. Polling in America suggests half of new-year resolvers give up by the end of March. More rigorous ...

I like to think I’m fairly disciplined. I can sit and write all day. I can do mundane physical tasks for even longer. (My superpower, if I have one, is the ability to perform mindless manual labor for ...

We've all been there: you're at a family party, business conference or networking event and you find yourself engaging in small talk. It's almost impossible to go through life without having to ...

Preventing illness and staying healthy means discontinuing bad habits that have developed over a lifetime. Unhealthy habits include smoking, overeating or unhealthy eating, avoiding exercise, drinking ...

Drop the habits that silently hold you back. Learn the patterns you must break before 2026 to boost your focus, confidence, ...