Q: Why don’t nuns have to worry about deciding what to wear? A: Because they have a habit. A habit is a shortcut that makes your life easier because you don’t have to spend energy choosing to do it.

"Show them where everything goes and explain that they are going to pick-up every day, just like when they are at school." ...

What we do on a daily basis is a result of our habits. You have certainly heard of the famous power of habits. Indeed, habits are at the root of success, but also of failure. It is through good habits ...

Warren Buffett–clearly a guy who knows a little something about developing good habits–once said, “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” Buffett is right.

In the Catholic faith, the word “habit” refers both to a stable disposition by which we choose the good easily and with joy and to the everyday garb of a member of a religious order. This pairing is ...

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Is that a quote from a rah-rah motivation speaker? Nope. It’s from Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher. His writings ...

A visit to the drive-thru at lunch, mindlessly scrolling social media, hitting the snooze button … five times. We all have them: The bad habits that prevent us from accomplishing our goals or feeling ...

Starting new habits feels amazing for about seven days, and then reality hits like a brick wall when your motivation ...

Research in the field of childhood development shows that experiences and habits formed during childhood shape our lives well into adulthood. Life is like a journey where every step forward builds on ...

This story first appeared in Healthy You - July 2024, The Gazette’s quarterly health publication. Setting your kids on a path to good oral hygiene habits starts sooner than you think, even before ...