Internet advice stresses that consistency is needed for success in life and self-regulation. If you've tried and failed to build consistent habits, you probably don't feel great about yourself. Try ...

As you’re drafting your New Year’s resolutions, you may think that it takes 21 days of repeating an action for that action to become a habit. So, you set out to go to the gym for 21 days, thinking ...

Old habits die hard — but so are new ones borne. Life hackers have long hypothesized about the existence of a provable time benchmark when a new practice becomes a disciplined skill. Old myths have ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. New research found that, unlike many people think, ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If you made a New Year’s resolution, it’s still probably too early to know if it’s become an actual habit yet, and according to one study, it may take a little longer to build that ...

A popular piece of self-help folklore might be more complicated than we thought. New research finds that it takes significantly more than a month for a new habit to form. Scientists at the University ...

Plus, how to make the habit stick this time.