Despite the great case for getting off our duffs, there are some amazingly cool and effective practices we can do from the comfort of our own recliners—without even budging a finger. For instance, you ...

Some years back, on a New Year’s morning in the mid-1980s, I poured myself a cup of coffee, sat down with my goal-setting notebook, and visualized living in a house in the hills above Santa Barbara.

When I was in high school, my friend Nick and I used to idolize Arnold Schwarzenegger because we both loved working out. We picked up his fitness books and studied his teachings. He was one of the ...