But you don’t need to have kids in school to benefit from a spring break. You don’t need to take a week’s vacation or even leave home. Last month, I threw a Fake Spring Break party.

Or, at 4 p.m., when you’ve been working for hours and you feel tired and tapped out, your habit may be to head into the kitchen or the break room for a snack, even though you aren’t hungry.

Start Slow: So often when people begin working out again, they want to start off working out five days a week for an hour each day. While this ambition is great, it's often not sustainable when ...