We know that willpower is a finite resource. And if you've tried unsuccessfully to make changes in the past (who hasn't?), you know that every subsequent time you try is harder than the previous. So what if there were a way to change bad habits without willpower, and with almost no effort at all? In…

New Year's resolutions don't stick. Everyone knows it, and it's now become almost cliched to push for a "no-resolutions New Year's." But let's make a big distinction here. On the one hand, you have the ill-fated type of resolution we're all familiar with: "I won't smoke in 2012." "I'll start my exercise plan on January…

It's hard to believe that at the beginning of this year, Wendy Fry was a gluttonous, lazy slob. (Her words, not mine.) From just the email interactions we had as she trained for her first marathon, I knew there was much more to the enthusiastic, motivated woman I was talking to than those words conveyed….

Somewhere inside your head, my head, and everyone else's head is a traitor.  Meet the Resistance. The job of the Resistance is to keep you where you are.  Because where you are is safe, and it's pretty tough to fail when you're standing still. What the Resistance looks like When you stare, paralyzed, at the…