Self-control, the ability to override or change internal impulses for the benefit of longer-term, strategic goals, has always been treasured as an admirable human trait. For example, Confucius taught ...

Do you ever feel like you’re being pulled in a million directions? In addition, maintaining a balanced work-life seems impossible when to-do lists stack up and deadlines loom. This is where ...

Self-leadership is a process through which individuals influence their own behavior to achieve the self-direction and self-motivation necessary to perform, empower themselves, and achieve personal ...

There are several developmental tasks and challenges of adolescence and emerging adulthood, including increasing independence, decreasing parental support and oversight, shifting social and emotional ...

These are comments I might get when people learn about my lifestyle. I’m one of those annoying people who eat lots of fruits and vegetables, exercise five times a week, save a portion of their salary, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. In our never-ending search for happiness, researchers have ...

Imagine a workplace where employees don’t wait for instructions, micromanagement doesn’t exist, and innovation flows organically. This is the world of self-managed teams—groups of individuals trusted ...

A brief history of the movement for workers' self-management in the 20th and 21st centuries. Examines instances of workers' control in Yugoslavia, Chile, Bolivia, Peru and contemporary Argentina.

A scientific squabble over how to define self-control draws from an unlikely source: A story from Greek mythology. Sailing home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, Odysseus longed to hear the Sirens’ ...

No matter how long you’ve been living with lupus, SELF has the tips and tools to help you better manage your disease. The SELF app (Strategies to Embrace Living with Lupus Fearlessly) is our free self ...