These are comments I might get when people learn about my lifestyle. I’m one of those annoying people who eat lots of fruits and vegetables, exercise five times a week, save a portion of their salary, ...

Highlighting summer's enhanced opportunities for healthy behavior has become a tradition for this column. In keeping with tradition, here is my annual installment – one that zeroes in on the core ...

How to have more self control, according to a mental health expert Self-control is a skill that takes time to develop. Clinical psychologist Dr. Ali Mattu has tips to help you improve and stay focused ...

People who can delay gratification and master their impulses thrive in life. And experts say that you can learn skills to rein in bad habits. By Christina Caron We tend to respect and even idolize ...

Have you ever read a self-help book? Have you, perhaps, had a friend recommend a great book that helped them sail above life’s troubles rather than bob about in the turmoil? When you dived into the ...

You can talk about self-control as the capacity to override impulses, resist temptations, and overturn dominant responses, to advance long-term over short-term goals, and to develop efficient, ...

A few common themes echo throughout forthcoming self-help titles: attention is a limited resource, there’s value in a curious mindset, and kindness toward oneself can be as crucial as kindness toward ...

Žižek questions this suggestion by proposing the scenario where, in the process of “setting their house in order,” one finds out that their house is in disorder because of the social reality they are ...

Self-help, self-improvement or personal growth — call them what you will, but the literary genre is around an $800 million industry annually. And why not? Most of us want to be better than we ...