Dear Scrolling: You’re not failing. You’re coping. Phones are designed to be irresistible, especially when you’re tired, ...

Every day we experience many desires—we want to watch the next episode, buy another gadget online, or eat the slice of chocolate cake. Is resisting all these desires (or as many as we can) the ...

Rise at 5am. Peel off the tape you’ve placed over your mouth to optimise the way you breathe when you’re dreaming. Immerse yourself in ice-cold water – it’s teeth-grittingly unpleasant, but someone on ...

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 ...

Traditional self-control advice focuses on building up your capacity to do things you don’t naturally want to do. This is how influencers sell cold plunges, for example. But it’s not just online gurus ...

This is part four of a five-part series. Leaders routinely repress or defer their own needs, desires, goals, or emotions in service of others, which is called self-control. While many leaders are ...

It’s probably all too familiar. Against your best intentions, you find yourself reaching for a late-night snack again. You snap at a colleague who didn’t really say anything wrong. You find excuses so ...

You want that new video game so badly, but you’re trying to knock your credit card balance down. Or you’re binging your favorite TV show and can’t wait to find out if a character lives, but it’s late, ...

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 ...

Do you ever get the feeling your brain is always racing ahead of your best intentions? Impulse control can be a struggle, especially as a neurodivergent woman. Quick reactions can create problems that ...