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Change Your Habits – Change Your Life!

Change Your Habits – Change Your Life!

. She was the scientists’ favorite participant. Lisa Allen, according to her file, was thirty-four years old, had started smoking and drinking when she was sixteen, and had struggled with obesity for most of her life. At one point, in her mid-twenties, collection agencies were hounding her to recover $10,000 in debts. An old résumé listed her longest job as lasting less than a year. The woman in f... »

The Power of Habits

The Power of Habits

Habits are powerful. Someone said we create habits, but they end up creating our whole lives for us. Habits are repeated actions. We decide, knowingly or unknowingly to take the actions we take. However, when the actions are repeated without being stopped, we become almost completely powerless to stop them. Good or bad, it has become a habit. Psychologists have studied habits for decades. They hav... »