The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.

But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last. Only when your brain starts expecting the reward--craving the endorphins or sense of accomplishment--will it become automatic to lace up your jogging shoes each morning. The cue, in addition to triggering a routine, must also trigger a craving for the reward to come.

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right