66 Days To Form A New Habit

There are always some things you must do, to avoid paying an unacceptably high price-things such as bookkeeping for your business or exercising regularly to remain fit.The easiest way of getting things done is to make them habits.The common belief is that doing something continuously for 3 weeks to a month helps you learn a habit.Here is some research to give you a better idea of how to build habits:

Phillippa Lally and colleagues from University College London recruited 96 people who were interested in forming a new habit such as eating a piece of fruit with lunch or doing a 15 minute run each day Lally et al. (2009). Participants were then asked daily how automatic their chosen behaviours felt. These questions included things like whether the behaviour was ‘hard not to do’ and could be done ‘without thinking’. Read more of this post