MAKING SIMPLE HABITS THAT STICK

Lately, I have really been working to create some better habits in my life. Simple changes that I know will have long term payoffs. But of course making new habits is pretty difficult. We all have a reluctance to change. We get set in our ways.

However that doesn't have to be the case. I recently read a great book called Making Habits, Breaking Habits, by Jeremy Dean, that explained that research studies have proven it takes between 60-66 days for a new habit to really "stick" and become automatic.

In the short run, this means we fail to cultivate really good habits because we fail to make it through the trial period of those 60-ish days. We try things a week or two, and then they drop off our radars because they never became automatic. It is only when habits become automatic that we can really become successful.