Italy's health ministry has banned puppies from participating in yoga classes, though adult dogs may continue.

Wanting to focus on so many things all at the same time.  Completely changing direction so many times that I was no longer productive. It was absolutely maddening!

When was the last time you had one of those sparks? You know, when you get a million ideas and are excited for each of them? You make your to-do list, and start knocking things out one by one. What was it that you accomplished? 

That is, so long as you don’t ignore the outside world, like the Twitter CEO who blithely tweeted from a meditation retreat in Myanmar, says Holly Rigby, a teacher and union activist.

Someone helps you. You say thanks. Is that how to be grateful? To show your appreciation for support and friendship, there is a bit more involved. Whether you show it regularly or not, you are prob…

Overnight success. There is no such thing. Everything that results in sustainable fulfillment requires patience, overcoming of obstacles, and persistence. The majority of successful people you read about lose (a lot) before they win.

“Time management” is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem.

“The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.” Mark Twain You’re confused. You want to pick a good book that will change your life, but you don’t know which one to read since there are too many books recommendations out there. Choosing a life-changing book to read doesn’t have…

Research reveals strategies for staying motivated in the face of challenges 

Before we can develop effective routines, we have to envision what “success” actually means to us. Admittedly, it’s easier to just adopt someone else’s habits. Among the billion pieces of content claiming to hold the recipe for success, there are a few common ingredients, from working double-time like Elon Musk to rising before the sun like Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Drinking coffee before a discussion can help people stay focused and feel better about the people in the conversation, suggests a new study that appears in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. “We see coffee being served in many meetings but found very little research on how coffee might affect group dynamics. Most research is about how coffee affects an individual. So, we decided to study the effects (if any), of consumption of coffee on performance of individuals in a group, and the collective output of the group,” explained study author Vasu Unnava of the University of California, Davis.

The first time I walked into a yoga studio, I looked around and did what the others were doing — got a mat, sat down cross-legged, and quietly waited for instruction. I hadn’t done any …

Parishioners have threatened to boycott a church that banned yoga from its premises because it is "non-Christian". Church bosses said the discipline that originated in ancient India "might be seen to be in conflict with Christian values and belief". Part of St David's Church, in Ceredigion, Wales, is being converted into a community centre after complaints that the village of Blaenporth lacked facilities.

Leadership development is often used more broadly than executive development, so what's the difference between the two?

What if instead of getting buried into garbage bags, old coffee grounds could be recycled into something useful and sustainable? That's the goal of Kaffeeform.

If a future of relentless fires, droughts, superstorms and rising sea levels makes you feel like you need a strong caffeinated beverage, there is some bad news: climate change is coming for the world’s coffee beans. Greg Meenahan, the partnership director at the non-profit institute World Coffee Research, puts it this way: “Demand for coffee is expected to double by the year 2050 and, if nothing is done, more than half of the world’s suitable coffee land will be pushed into unsuitability due to climate change. Without research and development, the coffee sector will need up to 180m more bags of coffee in 2050 than we are likely to have.”

A recent study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology examined people’s willingness to invest in their goals. The researchers found that people are happy to spend time and money on things when they are seen as directly impacting their end-goals, but less so when it comes to the indirect means of achieving those goals. The reason relates to the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation.