Struggling with your New Year’s fitness resolutions? Don't give in to Blue Monday. Here's how you can successfully form and ...

Nearly half of our daily activities are performed out of habit, occurring with minimal conscious thought. These automated behavioral patterns, ranging from morning routines to evening scrolling, ...

The number of days it takes to form a new habit depends on the habit, on you, and on what strategies you’re using to build ...

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 ...

Mindfully observe what you are doing right now. Is any part of it habitual? What is a habit? Habits are learned associations between context cues and responses, such as between the desk in your room ...

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Annie Dillard, in The Writing Life, wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this ...

Have you ever heard that it takes 60 days to form or change a habit? Well, that’s actually not true. I used to write about that being true, but new research and a mindset shift for me made me realize ...

If you've ever tried to build a new habit—whether that's exercising more, eating healthier, or going to bed earlier—you may have heard the popular claim that it only takes 21 days to form a habit.

We're nearly one month into 2025, but if you're struggling to hold onto your New Year's resolution, stay strong, as University of South Australia research shows that forming a healthy habit can take ...

We’re now just about a month into the new year and, although it isn’t sentient, I’m acutely aware that my notes app list of ‘resolutions’ is laughing at me from the other room. The truth is, I still ...