SIR A.P.J ABDUL KALAM

The best way to overcome phone anxiety is to make more phone calls.

• Start by making a list of the people you need to speak to on the phone, like friends or colleagues.
• Consider what makes you anxious, for example, making a mistake.
• When the call is ...

Habit-building is a powerful tool for self-improvement. But the power of the tool can also create some overreach. In one way, habits will fail to form.

In other circumstances, habits are not the right way of thinking for making progress on some goals.

People that are great at self-control don't have to make more effort. Instead, they avoid effortful strategies and use easier ones.

In this way, they don’t tax and overwork their brains, and thus they are free to invest their effort into pursuing their goals, instead of fighting with...