If you’ve felt your focus fraying lately, you’re not imagining it, and you’re not simply undisciplined. Today’s attention economy is designed to keep us passively consuming content, often undermining our ability to concentrate and stay motivated. Fortunately, focus and motivation are skills we can rebuild.

How can you get 150 minutes of physical activity into your week without relying on structured workouts or setting foot in a gym? Many people are accumulating more time in this zone than they realize through typical activities of daily living. 

Midlife has a bad reputation. We typically think of it as that dreadful and turbulent point in life at which options narrow, capabilities fade, and the best years recede in the rearview mirror. It’s a compelling story, and it’s largely wrong.