From biting our nails to eating junk food, we all have bad habits. Bad habits drain the energy from our lives and prevent us from achieving our goals. The most dangerous part about bad habits is that ...

Nobody is perfect. Everyone has little habits or idiosyncrasies they do without thinking, things they’ve been doing since they were little or actions that they picked up out of nowhere. For most ...

Habits get a bad reputation. They are often associated with “bad” things, specifically things we aspire to change about ourselves. But, unfortunately, something coined as a "bad habit" to one person ...

Nearly half of our daily activities are performed out of habit, occurring with minimal conscious thought. These automated behavioral patterns, ranging from morning routines to evening scrolling, ...

Have you ever struggled to break a bad habit, or are you trying to break one right now? To stop a bad habit and keep it from coming back again, there’s a simple truth you need to accept first. You ...

If you ever needed proof that God has a sense of humor, you need only look at how we’re wired to form habits. Humans are astonishing in their ability to habitualize almost any behavior. With ...

New Year’s resolutions are an age-old tradition, yet the pledges themselves seem to quickly fly out the window. Although there are many understandable reasons for broken resolutions during the year, ...

Breaking a bad habit can feel like swimming against a current. You know it isn’t serving you, but your brain defaults to it anyway. A bad habit is a learned behavior that’s performed automatically in ...

Business leaders are expected to set positive examples for their teams to keep morale high and ensure that employees embrace the organization’s core values. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out ...

Duhigg breaks down the habit cycle-cue, routine, reward-and shows how such understanding helps in overcoming addictions. Drawing on research and real-life examples, he explains how cravings drive ...

We all have bad work habits, and most of us are content to get away with them for the foreseeable future. Sure, they may make us a little less productive, and they might not look great in a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Sometime during childhood, I developed a seemingly unbreakable habit of twirling my hair and picking at ...