Fitness

Goals. I've set myself a big one, a challenge for a not-particularly athletic mother of small children: complete a triathlon. But I'm starting from scratch and will need about a year to prepare. As I ease my way into training, the big goal seems to stretch farther and farther away. It becomes a maybe-triathlon, a haze on the horizon. "I don't feel like getting up for a run," I say to my husband. "So stay in bed," says he. "But if I don't get up every time I don't feel like it," I say, "I'll never go for a run."

With only one weekend left before Christmas, you may have already finished the bulk of your shopping and only have a couple more people to still buy for. If you're like me, you could be tempted to buy gift cards instead of going back into mall mania.

By setting a larger goal, and then breaking that down into smaller achievements you can check off as you do them, you'll hit your fitness stride in no time.

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

We all have those weeks where it actually feels like we're running around with our hair on fire. For designers, that would be fashion week.