goals

Self-help books and magazines often proclaim the power of dreaming your dreams into reality. If you want to achieve your goals, they advise, begin by seeing yourself in the place you aspire to be or as the person you hope to become. In short, visualize the future as a means of feeding the present with potential.

Do you look at really fit women and think that you could never achieve that? You're wrong! Find out why you can do it too, and how to get there

Internationally-renowned obesity researcher Dr. Arya Sharma – a man I admire – thinks that weight loss should NOT be a goal. I’m inclined to agree with him.

Adhering to these common sense steps really will get your butt in shape

Achieving a goal involves a strange mixture of elation and questioning. For nine months, I trained toward completing a triathlon. On Sunday, the day of reckoning arrived, and the race proceeded almost as I'd imagined it in my dreams: I didn't drown in the lake; I didn't have to change a flat tire by the side of the road; and my legs (and mind) held up during the run.