A major health scare is often the strongest motivator for people to make lifestyle changes. Successfully changing long-term habits requires a firm decision rather than simply wanting to change. Making ...

It’s not willpower that helps us stick with a New Year’s resolution. People who stay with their resolution to, say, eat healthier or exercise more find satisfaction in the activity itself, behavioral ...

If you’re planning to make a resolution or two this new year, here are some tips on how to make it stick past January. Fireworks are launched from a barge in the Delaware River as seen from Penns ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

2026 is coming. It’s time to set some New Year’s resolutions that you will definitely not abandon by March. After all, this is the year you'll get your life together. “Typically, at the end of the ...

Every January, millions of people make resolutions. By February, most have abandoned them. The failure rate, depending on which study you cite, hovers around 80 percent. We know this. We've lived it.