Keystone habits are foundational behaviors that can influence other areas of your well-being. When you establish one, it sets off a cascade of positive changes.

When others write about how to form good habits, the focus is usually on how people can get themselves to consistently do things they don't always feel like doing. The gist is that habits will help ...

Do you have a bad habit that you have been desperately trying to change for quite some time? Maybe it is quitting smoking or ending your love affair with donuts. Or maybe you are trying to cultivate a ...

When you struggle to change your habits, lack of information is rarely the culprit. You likely already know which behaviors have a positive or negative influence on your life. It’s not a surprise that ...

New psychological research reveals three ways you can break bad habits—not just temporarily, but for life. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown. Up to 72% of Americans have at least one unhealthy ...

It can feel hard to change your behaviour or form a new habit, especially over the course of a whole year. On January 1, you ...

Systematic review finds health habits can form in as little as two months, but individual variability ranges from 4 to 335 days. Morning routines and self-selected habits show the strongest results.

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Do a quick internet search and you’ll find hundreds of fitness programs. Each one will tell you which exercises to do, how to perform them, and how many sets and reps you should do. The reality is ...

A popular piece of self-help folklore might be more complicated than we thought. New research finds that it takes significantly more than a month for a new habit to form. Scientists at the University ...