Marcus Aurelius ran the Roman Empire through years of war on the northern frontier and a plague that negatively affected enormous numbers of people. Somewhere ...

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At the start of every new year, many of us think about how to make our lives better going forward. Perhaps we want to lose weight or stop drinking or stay off of our cell phones. If only we had more ...

Self-control refers to the process of resisting temptations (e.g., eating junk food) that conflict with enduring goals that usually involve bigger but delayed rewards (maintaining a healthy weight and ...

Talent helps. So does luck, and so does knowing the right people at the right time, but none of it lasts long without ...

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 ...

What does self-discipline look like at work? Sometimes it’s the ability to resist temptation, such as distractions to avoid a particular task, or taking a donut from the break room. Other times it’s ...

Sivananda's own day began at 4 a.m. He called Brahmamuhrta, the pre-dawn window between roughly 3:30 and 5:30 a.m., the single best hour for building any practice, because the mind has not yet ...

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Self-control has long been regarded as one of the strongest predictors of success. Most of us can picture that colleague who never misses a deadline, volunteers for extra projects and keeps everything ...