Mookie Betts is not afraid to admit how his year has gone. He knows a few good weeks cannot erase four months of below league-average performance at the plate or lift the burden that the eight-time ...

We are creatures of habits, both good and bad. What separates the good from the bad are the negative consequences that result from the bad ones, ranging from mildly embarrassing—say, nail-biting when ...

Did you make any resolutions this new year? If you did, are you keeping to them? Well done if you are. Polling in America suggests half of new-year resolvers give up by the end of March. More rigorous ...

Mindfully observe what you are doing right now. Is any part of it habitual? What is a habit? Habits are learned associations between context cues and responses, such as between the desk in your room ...

I like to think I’m fairly disciplined. I can sit and write all day. I can do mundane physical tasks for even longer. (My superpower, if I have one, is the ability to perform mindless manual labor for ...