Every spouse has annoying habits. When you're married, you never let others know how irritated you are over your wife or husband's more obnoxious trai...
Nip these six bad spending habits, stat!
If you're gung ho on quitting cold turkey, make sure you've got plenty of gas in the tank (and can keep filling it up). Common signs of an empty tank are summed up in the acronym HALT (Hungry Angry Lonely Tired). Also, if going cold turkey has failed you before, or if it sounds particularly painful, try other methods.
My mother, a mostly easy-going person, made it very clear when I was a child that there were three things she would not stand for in our house. Loud gum chewing; hair twirling, twisting or curling; and declaring that something is "so fun." Living with mom was so much fun.
It's hard to motivate yourself to adopt new habits, but it's even harder to rid yourself of old ones. More often than not, it's the latter that keep us from becoming the person we really want to be.
By Lauren McMullen for U.S News How are those resolutions going, two weeks in? Only 300-something days left to drop 30 pounds or quit smoking or be...
Some men have a hard time hearing women curse. They don't mind choice words being used during foreplay and sex, but they don't appreciate those same words being said in public.
Have you ever tried to lose weight by not thinking about food? How about trying to stop yourself from calling your love interest by blocking out all thoughts about that person? Ever try to quit smoking by trying not to think about smoking? Did it work? I'll bet it didn't.
Certain virtues are certainly rational. It is an unskilled use of reason to think otherwise. Or to fail to at least try to act accordingly.
With holiday tasks to accomplish, work projects to be finished, and family obligations to be met, realize that something has got to give. Perhaps it's time for it to be your perfectionism.
By Amy Shearn We've all had our "That's so annoying... wait! I think I do that!" moments, so we've compiled this list of mini social crimes that we...
By Dr. Mehmet Oz Just how bad is it to eat a whole bag of chips in one sitting? Or sip more than one glass of wine a day? Here, a ranking of th...
We all want to change something. Most of us have tried and had either fleeting success or chalked up a failure. The way we think about change is the problem. In this arena (unlike most), we think too much. We usually think our way to keeping things exactly as they are.
My last couple of blogs have focused on helping you become aware of your deepest fears and discover the negative patterns and habits that are dominating your life. This blog will look at how you change those undesirable patterns.
Once you understand why you do what you do, you can start to explore your stories and the beliefs and fears behind them.
In January I wrote a piece suggesting twelve bad habits the art world should break in the coming year. September ushers in a new art season, so what b...
Lift, a new app from the incubator backed by Twitter's co-founders, is designed to make you a better person through continuous positive reinforcement....
Though it's safe to say most reading this article's closest connection to the Olympics will ever be is the couch, their bottom, and a TV set, in the spirit of the games I asked leading behaviorist Dr. B.J. Fogg how us Average Joes can develop "Olympic-sized" habits.
Be patient with yourself -- its ok to take time in overcoming a habit. If you slip up, just start again. Before you know it, a week without doing it will become a month and then a year and so on.
By Jenn Here at CollegeCandy, we write a lot of how-to posts. But for this particular how-to, I wanted to go a little less glam, and a little bit m...
To let go of the habits we created is difficult, but the rewards of creating new and positive habits can be life-changing.
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.
In the last decade, our understanding of the neurology of habit formation has been transformed. We've learned how habits form -- and why they are so hard to break.
When you're having a bad day, what do you do? Do you reach for foods you shouldn't even be near? Maybe it's a bag of potato chips, a chocolate bar, or...
Microphone in hand, I set out to ask perfect strangers one question that I just had to know the answer to - what is a vice you were able to overcome? ...
