Cal Ripken, Jr. holds a Major League Baseball (MLB) record for playing in 2,632 consecutive games between 1982 and 1998. To put the magnitude of his achievement into context, consider this fact. Other MLB players made more than 5,000 separate trips to the disabled list (DL) during this timeframe, [1] and players on the disabled list generally… [Read More]

People who attend the group exercise classes that I teach often tell me that they avoid them in January since they know the classes will be more crowded than usual. “I’ll see you in February,” one man once said to me in late December. “The New Year’s Resolutions crowd will be cleared out by then,”… [Read More]

Everyone has bad habits. Maybe you eat more junk food than you would like. Maybe you hit the snooze button more often than you would like. Maybe you waste more time online than you would like. If you want to break a bad habit, you could just try to muster up more willpower to stop… [Read More]

Have you ever wondered what causes bad habits? Despite what many people believe, bad habits are not caused by a lack of willpower. As written here, bad habits do not happen randomly or because of the way you are. Habits form due to a process identified by author Charles Duhigg as “The Habit Loop.” [1] Every bad habit… [Read More]

In a study conducted by University College London, researchers had 96 volunteers choose a healthy drinking, eating, or exercise activity that they wanted to turn into a habit. The study participants were asked to perform their chosen behavior every day in the same context (i.e. during lunch or before dinner) for twelve weeks. Each participant’s… [Read More]

When people typically think of forming a new habit, they usually just try to stop doing or start doing a certain behavior. This approach is rarely effective because habits do not occur in a vacuum. In The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Author Charles Duhigg shares an… [Read More]

Advertisements can mislead us and suggest that there are shortcuts to success. Billions of dollars are spent every year promoting products and services that promise you can look, feel, and perform better with little or no effort. Life would be much easier if we could become our best over a weekend. Unfortunately, we cannot summon… [Read More]