Sentences with phrase «term habit of»

«Long - term habits of pronation or supination can lead to injury of the knees, hips, and to deleterious consequences for your spinal alignment,» explains Reif.

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While setting goals and sticking to them can be challenging, Lemonis says as he's gotten older, he's gotten into the habit of only setting short - term and obtainable goals that he knows are within his reach.

In fact, observes CAW economist Jim Stanford, the apparent cash - hoarding habit Carney identified is not merely an artifact of the post-2008 economic uncertainty in Canada, but rather a «long - term secular trend» in many industrialized nations.

By promoting habits like taking frequent computer breaks and putting sleep on the agenda, business owners, managers and employees alike can create a healthier work environment more supportive of better sleep and long - term productivity.

In any case, if you get in the habit of asking yourself a few of the following questions before making a «big» purchase, you can easily remove some spending on items that don't add to your long term happiness and financial goals.

Your own health habits — especially in terms of diet, weight, activity (or lack thereof)-- and choices around smoking, drinking and drug use, are arguably even more important predictors, said certified financial planner Carolyn McClanahan, who is also a medical doctor.

Activists have a habit of demanding short term solutions — sale leasebacks, stock buybacks — that get in the way of companies making the investments they need for long - term health.

«Now, we're making Congress and the administration take notice of what their spending habits have done to the country, and that's a good thing in terms of turning this thing around.»

Successful people know how to set that desire aside and cultivate the habit of thinking in the long term.

Instead of any generational habits, the term millennial could often be ascribed to any upwardly mobile city - dweller, he said.

They structure their workday and habits in ways that allow them time to «go deep,» i.e., focus their attention, part of each day on projects that contribute to their long - term success.

The most essential step in leading change like this is creating a sense of urgency that such a transformation needs to take place (which takes us back to the first habit: Know how to put content marketing in business terms).

The normal interplay of habit and novelty, which we have explained in terms of the relation between the dominant occasion and the supportive occasions, is disturbed.

What McCabe wished to deny was that motives and character always coerced the will in terms of causal necessity.3 Sometimes overwhelming motives and ingrained habits do in fact coerce the will.

At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new cultural patterns.»

However, the spontaneity we need must be distinguished from acting according to habit or in terms of a narrow self - interest.

Character can not be understood in Kerschensteiner's terms as an organization of self - control by means of the accumulation of maxims nor in Dewey's terms as a system of interpenetrating habits.

While such an approach may engage the interests of the students temporarily, it does them a long - term disservice by encouraging them in attitudes and habits that are ultimately life - destroying.

Husbands get lower premiums because they are different creatures in terms of habits, values, behavior, and general health.

What kind of interest does the state have in the health and habits of women of childbearing age as it effects their bodies» ability to carry a child to term?

An obvious example of this habit is the term «pro-choice,» which refers to someone in favor of performing a certain act without actually naming and, more important, scrutinizing what that act is.

In Browning's terms, it displaces the habit of «theory - to - practice» thinking.

All the other habits of composition that Ford attributes to Whitehead rest on the two attributions we have just put into question; for we are told that the insertions of later writings into earlier ones, and the overall arrangements of writings in a given book, are meant to induce readers to disregard passages conveying abandoned doctrines or positions or, if the doctrines and positions are kept in modified form, to reinterpret them in terms of their final or mature formulations.

Now in the case of God, it appears that there are two sorts of causally significant feeling - aspect, the noncategorial and the categorial, and two sorts of resultant disposition, which can be termed «emergent habits» and (with apologies to ordinary language) «eternal habits,» respectively.

Whitehead approaches this dangerous non-creativeness of habit in terms of «specialization» (PR 153).

Freedom is the capacity to choose wisely and to act well as a matter of habit — or, to use the old - fashioned term, as an outgrowth of virtue.

Now anyone who seeks to understand personal identity in terms of behavioral habits quickly encounters two well - known objections.

The second objection to conceptualizating personal identity in terms of behavioral habits is but an ethical application of the first.

Those who approach matters strictly in terms of standard scientific habits of mind have to explain what they find purely in terms of physical events in the brain.

So when he came to analyse the psychology of a Christian he did not like to speak in terms of the «habit» (an Aristotelean and Thomist category) of charity, inspired by the Holy Spirit, but preferred to speak directly of the Holy Spirit of God, working in man, immediately, not mediately.

In fact, happiness is a short - term side effect of eating veggies, which means that while increased health occurs over a longer period of time, happiness can increase much more quickly once one makes a habit of eating veggies.

So easy choices = more high fives = a better chance of sticking to a habit long term.

In terms of lunch, I finally got into the habit of prepping meals for the week on Sunday, which saves some money by not eating $ 12 salads every day.

While the results were promising, the amount consumed was significantly higher than the amount of coconut water consumed by most people, and scientists concluded that further long - term study on humans was needed, particularly research that took into consideration the practical consumption habits of coconut water.

Boyer told Food Processing Technology: «The challenge was to better understand consumers» perception of snacking, what would be the definition they associate with this term and what are their eating habits (focusing on in - between meals and meals replacement).»

Need to get more in the habit of scoring early so games open up and we can play on our terms.

In passing may I refer to the maddening habit of sports columnists, not to mention many a columnist in other pages of the papers, misusing the term «begging the question».

The nurses told Johnson he was «cluster feeding,» a term that refers to an infant's habit of feeding frequently for short intervals, say five hours, but they should not be cluster feeding for two whole days.

The term «sleep training» refers to habits that are formed out of repetition.

This chapter makes you think about the long - term goal of your parenting and not being afraid of «building bad habits» and instead seeing the positive results of your connection.

«Just as a parent can create good habits in terms of food, exercise and alcohol use, so they can with screen misuse or overuse.

Serving this kind of food to kids isn't just unhealthy in the short term; it can permanently affect children's eating habits, said Dr. David Kessler, a pediatrician and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

Make this the year you persist, and turn those resolutions into long - term habits to be proud of!

What can we change in terms of lifestyle habits that can help you cope with any of the feelings you're worried about?

I followed the advice to the letter in terms of establishing good habits and a strong nursing relationship with my son, and I'm still experiencing a decrease in supply.

Eisenberg said he hopes to find a framework to assess the program's long - term effects «in terms of their physiology, weight, obesity rates, eating habits outside school and education potential over the next several years.

Teaching children the importance of a balanced diet requires consistent, long - term efforts, but considerable evidence shows that schools have — and are seizing — the opportunity to help young Americans develop healthy eating habits.

Agree on a long - term goal and start a fund in a jar, suggests Sam Renick, author of It's a Habit, Sammy Rabbit!

The good news is that it's never too late to develop healthy homework habits; your family can start these five teacher - recommended steps at the start of a new school year, a new term, or even upon returning from winter or spring break.

You see, students who haven't developed effective homework habits tend to lack the motivation to study, misunderstand how to study, and fail to see the long - term benefits of putting forth an effort at home and at school.