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Originally Posted by TheStrongerSelf  Wellllll, i think it really depends on what you expect after 30 days. I too think forming a habit takes variable amounts of time, depending on the strength of old interfering habits and your desire to do it.
I much more see the 30 days timespan as the timespan it takes me to figure out if this is a habit i want to adapt and keep in the long run or if i should go another direction. For example, i have started to exercise daily about 45 days ago, but it still takes effort for me to get it started everyday. Is it a habit if it takes effort to begin doing it, but i still do it daily? If not, then i clearly missed the 30 days mark =) But 30 days was enough for me to figure out that it was good enough for me to keep doing it. |
TSS, it shouldn't have anything to do with desire etc. If you still stuggle at 45 days then it's not a habit because you are thinking about it and that is exactly my point. If you had been doing this for 5 years it would be ingrained and part of your neurology as something you do, not something you
have to do.
Think of habits or rituals that you do without even thinking about them at a conscious level, they are the holy grail of development in so much as that with persistance we can get almost anything to that level.
I'm doing a horrible job of explaining what I mean but it's no big deal
