Triathlete

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Every morning when you get up you probably hit your alarm without thinking about it, roll out of bed, and grab your slippers and a robe. Maybe you walk into the kitchen and start making coffee before you’re even fully awake—hitting the light switch a

Working Mother

2 min read

Some habits are more helpful than detrimental. Photo: iStock What habits come to mind when you think of your bad habits? Is it frequent Netflix binges that keep you looking less than bright-eyed in the mornings? Or maybe it’s the three plus cups of d

NEXT

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You may have heard it takes 30 days to create a new habit. Well, it’s not as simple or as difficult as that. If you have managed to create a new habit simply by doing it for 30 days, congratulations. Repetition is important, but most of us fail well

Popular Science

5 min read

Apply the power of habit to your annual goals. Use your weakness to your advantage. Pexels Breaking New Year’s resolutions is so time-honored a tradition that companies can actually stake their business model on it. Gyms like Planet Fitness depend on

Diabetic Living Australia

1 min read

Resolutions often fail when they’re negative – for example, “don’t eat dessert” or “stop smoking”. Negative resolutions require you to be constantly vigilant. That’s mentally tough. “The brain can’t form habits around actions you don’t do,” says Art

Mindful

3 min read

We can take any area or habit in our lives, fill it up with intentionality, awareness, and compassionate discipline, and reap deep rewards. When we take the time to love and replenish ourselves, we reconnect with our true nature and return to the wor

New Idea

1 min read

James Clear is a bestselling author, speaker and expert on habits and decision-making. Here, he shares how to rely less on your willpower and more on your everyday behaviour. When it comes to building new habits, you can use the connectedness of beh

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

2 min read

As we head towards March, some of those well-intentioned New Year’s resolutions we made may be falling off, and old habits could be sneaking back in. The brain controls our habitual behaviour, which has three elements – a cue, a routine and a reward

Cycling Plus

7 min read

When Dr BJ Fogg, director of the behaviour design lab at Stanford University, decided to improve his strength, he started by doing two press-ups after each trip to his bathroom at home. Over time he added more press-ups, ending with a celebratory fis

WellBeing

3 min read

Have you tried to make wellbeing change and felt you failed? Do you find yourself lurching from adopting great wellbeing strategies to abandoning them at other times? Or do you have desires to adopt new wellbeing strategies but just never seem to fin

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

1 min read

Little indulgences here and there are to be expected, but if you find yourself craving sugary foods intensely, it may be time to look at why this is the case. Dr Michelle Celander, director of program and science at WW, explains. “Neuroscience resear

Money Magazine

2 min read

Creating new habits is hard. Our human nature loves to maintain the status quo, and sees small change as energy sapping and frustrating. Plus, when we attempt to build good financial habits, such as cutting back on discretionary spending, we face a f

Woman & Home

3 min read

If, like most of us, you make resolutions every year, promising to make big, sweeping lifestyle changes – eat less, exercise more, be kinder, work harder – then you’ll know how difficult it is to stick to new ways of doing things. Perhaps by now you’

WellBeing

3 min read

BY JAN McLEOD JAN McLEOD is a highly respected coach, mentor, speaker and consultant, a specialist in the areas of high performance, wellbeing, nutrition, and change strategy in the workplace. W: thecapacityequation. com.au or madfor health.com.au Th

Shop Talk

4 min read

Habits are capable of addressing far-reaching issues, from customer service to engagement, and even purpose. Leaders across industry lines have caught on, and habits are quickly becoming the way business leaders approach human capital management (HCM

Futurity

2 min read

Board games, card games, and even computer games can get children to eat more fruits and vegetables, but they can also encourage children to eat more unhealthy snacks, according to new research. The researchers reviewed 43 studies from the around the

WellBeing

3 min read

JENNY ODELL, BLACK INC. Is there anything harder to do than nothing at all? In her self-help manual meets political manifesto, artist, writer and Stanford professor Jenny Odell delivers a rallying cry for taking time out of your day to “do” nothing.

MASK The Magazine

1 min read

Anyone who’s tried to break a bad habit will tell you, it isn’t easy. Any type of habit literally becomes hard wired into our brains. The good news? The same brain functions that create bad habits, can help us to establish good ones. Dr. Randy Brazie

Futurity

3 min read

A single kind of neuron deep within the brain serves as a “master controller” of habits, new research in mice indicates. Some habits are helpful, such as automatically washing your hands before a meal or driving the same route to work every day. They

that's life

1 min read

Data from the Alcohol and Drug Foundation’s Break the Habit campaign shows that during the COVID-19 restrictions many of us have picked up some bad habits. CEO Dr Erin Lalor has some tips to help with reducing alcohol intake, which can also be applie

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

1 min read

James Clear is a bestselling author, speaker and expert on habits and decision-making. Here, he shares how to rely less on your willpower and more on your everyday behaviour – no more sticky notes or alarms required! When it comes to building new hab

Woman's Day

1 min read

James Clear is a bestselling author, speaker and expert on habits and decision-making. Here, he shares how to rely less on your willpower and more on your everyday behaviour – no more sticky notes or alarms required! When it comes to building new ha

Woman's Day

1 min read

Little indulgences here and there are to be expected, but if you find yourself craving sugary foods intensely, it may be time to look at why this is the case. Dr Michelle Celander, director of program and science at WW, explains. “Neuroscience resea

Lion's Roar

6 min read

THE MOMENT MY meditation habit was established for good was in a checkout line at Whole Foods. It was in 2002, I was in my early twenties, and I was living in Austin, Texas. I worked for a small software company, where I was failing. I smoked pot eve

Ideas

4 min read

Over the years, I have tried many different ways to eliminate things from my life when I’ve decided they’re not adding anything and to invite in different, better habits. Sometimes it works, but often not. Last year, when I received a Changing Habits

Women's Running

1 min read

How to know when your relationship with running needs a refresh You already know that running has a whole host of physical, mental and emotional benefits: It can make you fitter, stronger and happier, to name a few. But is it possible to have an unhe

Futurity

1 min read

Motivation, rather than habit, drives addictive behavior in the face of adverse consequences and constantly changing circumstances, new research suggests. “We’re challenging the definition of addiction as a habit…” The researchers studied how male ra

Woman & Home Feel Good You

5 min read

Do you make the same resolution every year? Maybe last year you even stuck to your new habit for a month or so, but then, somehow, ran out of steam. Well, according to the latest research, you’re simply not flexing the right “mental muscle”. “The goo

Your Family

1 min read

Make each change tiny. This will prevent it from becoming laborious or overwhelming. Build a habit for three to four weeks before you introduce the next one. Introduce an incentive or reward system to build motivation. Encourage friends or family to

Woman's Day

1 min read

Your mind may be the main obstacle when it comes to hitting your health goals, with factors like stress and anxiety having the ability to affect how and what you eat. So, instead of punishing yourself when trying to eat a more balanced diet, Dr Miche