Habits

7 Habits To Break Free From

Linda Durnell | Posted 05.18.2012

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To let go of the habits we created is difficult, but the rewards of creating new and positive habits can be life-changing.

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The Neuroscience of Bad Habits: Dr. Nora Volkow

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. | Posted 05.14.2012

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Just because our brains have been altered by addiction, doesn't mean we're destined to fall into the same habits. With the right skills, community and support we can learn how to break out of routine and into a life worth living.

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How Personal Analytics Can Help Debunk Popular Myths

Stefan Heeke | Posted 05.02.2012

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I started analyzing personal information, maintaining a diary of numbers until I had sufficient data to run a statistical calculation on my personal well-being. Which activities correlate with a good day? Which decisions best advance long term goals? What works, what doesn't?

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5 Tips for Boosting Your Willpower

Christine Carter, PhD | Posted 04.28.2012

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Who among us has not made a plan to get up in the morning and exercise, but then hit snooze one time too many, sleeping through our morning jog?

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How to Turn Drinking from One of Life's Pleasures to a Habit in Three Easy Steps

Leah Odze Epstein | Posted 04.26.2012

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If you find yourself mired in habits, it might be best to work backwards and ask yourself, what is it I really want?

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The Balanced Life

Paul Spector, M.D. | Posted 04.25.2012

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How can we understand our relationship with excess? How do we continue to believe that more money or cars or shoes or food or sex will make us happy? Why are we the only animal that can be made ill by our appetites?

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One Good Way To Kick A Bad Habit

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. | Posted 04.23.2012

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Bring this practice into the moments of your life at home and at work where you notice the habits occurring. Allow it to widen the space of awareness and choose a different response.

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Habits Are Everything

Christine Carter, PhD | Posted 04.20.2012

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Habits are a critical component of the happiness equation. It is one thing to know what to do to be happy (or to raise happy children, or to create a happy marriage) but it is quite another thing to actually be able to do those things.

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Four Money Habits You Need To Ditch Now

LearnVest | Posted 04.19.2012

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If you're having trouble acting in your best financial interest at all times, you're not alone. And you've come to the right place. We've provided resources to help you tackle the biggest financial issues Americans said were standing in their way.

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You Can Overcome Fixations and Achieve Insight

Art Markman, Ph.D. | Posted 04.17.2012

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The key to breaking out of habitual ways of looking at objects is to list all of the features of the objects and then to describe them by looking at what they are made of rather than by thinking about their function.

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A Personal Mission: Define Your Wellness (Part 2)

Deepak Chopra | Posted 03.31.2012

No one walks a straight line on the journey to wellness. Most studies of lapses in fitness, nutrition and recovery programs show that you can get back on track more easily if you have scripted the way you will recover.

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3 Tiny Habits to Enhance Your Mindfulness Practice

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 05.13.2012

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All the hype around mindfulness -- being aware of the present moment, on purpose and without judgment, has gotten many people interested in giving it a try. The big challenge for most has been how to sustain their practice past the initial excitement.

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How To Break Bad Habits And Form Good Ones

Judith S. Beck, Ph.D. | Posted 05.08.2012

Most dieters need to learn a number of other cognitive and behavioral techniques to lose weight and keep it off. But a new habit of planned eating is crucial for success.

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5 Steps To Improve Your Lifestyle Habits

Deepak Chopra | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Executive Control, Habits, Change, Health Prevention, Forming New Habits, Breaking Old Habits, Lifestyle Habits, Goal Setting, Wellness, Finding Wellness, Personal Wellness, Consciousness, Mindfulness, Emotional Wellness, Emotional Health, Spiritual Wellness, Mental Wellness, Healthy Living News

A basic outline for prevention has existed for more than 30 years, but wellness has had a hard time making real headway. Old habits are hard to break. Our society has a magic bullet fixation, waiting for the next miracle drug to cure us of every ill.

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Why Did Whitney Fail Rehab? Too Much Talent.

Charles Duhigg | Posted 04.14.2012

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Why, given Houston's obvious and prodigious talents, did she fail at rehab so many times? And why -- as is now suspected -- did she have such little control over a drug habit that it took her life?

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Can You Make Exercise A Habit?

Jessica Cassity | Posted 03.31.2012

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If you can't make fitness a true habit, maybe a better question is, at what point do you start craving exercise? When does it become something you look forward to enough to do regularly without putting up an internal fight?

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An Incomplete List of Things to Do Daily, to Be Happy and Healthy.

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 03.21.2012

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I've just started trying to come up with a list of the bare minimum of things we should do every day to be happy and healthy.

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WATCH: Prejudice In The Brain: Can You Break Your Biased Habits?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.10.2012

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How do we choose who to call a friend? An enemy?

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Habit #5 Intention and Expectation: The Impact on the Class

Willow Dea | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Habits, Expectations, Education Reform, Teaching, Integral Education, Personal Growth, Intention, Education News

When we intend something, and are open to the actual (and possibly different) outcome, there's an opportunity to learn, stay curious and be with a new, perhaps better outcome.

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Don't Let the Holidays Make You Their Bitch

Jen Sincero | Posted 02.14.2012

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I've been living home-free for over 7 months now, staying in hotels, furnished rentals, the occasional international airport terminal and with family ...

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A Day in the Strife of a Writer

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Creativity, Marriage, Habits, A.D.D., Jewish Mothers, Writers, Writing, Procrastination, Distraction, Homeowning, Avoidance, Cleaning, Books News

On my way to the studio I notice the path is partly blocked by an overgrown shrub, so I put the pliers down, go to the tool shed to get hedge clippers and trim back the intrusive plant. I go in and sit at my desk to prepare for the class.

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Maximize Your Profits by Maximizing Choice

Dorie Clark | Posted 10.31.2011

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It's essential to identify the core values of your business and stand up for them. But it's also essential to weed out false assumptions and bad business habits.

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Watch Your Mouth, Dude

Jen Sincero | Posted 10.22.2011

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I grew up in suburban New York, and my family wasn't much on traveling, so when I arrived at my alma matter, The Colorado College, I'd never been out ...

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Balanced Life -- If I Can't Accomplish Anything Else Today, I Can Do These 10 Things.

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.05.2011

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Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: Ten things I can do every day -- even when I can't do anything else. We've all had days where it seems a...

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The Only Way to Get Important Things Done

Tony Schwartz | Posted 07.26.2011

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We each have one reservoir of will and discipline, and it gets progressively depleted by any act of conscious self-regulation. So if you spend energy trying to resist a fragrant chocolate chip cookie, you'll have less energy left over to solve a difficult problem.

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