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I'm just unsure of the actual physical time to make something become a habit or ritual in 30 days because with most people its still almost certainly at the conscious competence stage and to be a true habit it's got to be at the unconscious competence level.
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I think it depends on what the task is. The more physical or conscious the task has to be, the less "ingrained" it's going to be, no matter how many days you've done it.
Things like sleeping on a certain side of the bed, breathing, keeping your food from touching the other food on your plate at a potluck, those are all habits. They're such a part of you do you do it without consciously thinking about it. (Another would be living a vegan lifestyle. You don't think about not eating any animal products, it's on autopilot.)
However, some other things I don't think are true 'habits' than 'rituals' - just ways of living. Things like practicing a musical instrument for an hour daily, exercising, going out of your way to meet a new person every day, those things you need to keep in the front of your mind every day so they don't escape you. Those things aren't so much innate as they are "I have to remember to do this or else I won't get around to it today." That's why people end up scheduling times to exercise, etc.. If you don't make it an effort, it will not get done.
So to answer your question: in a nutshell, it just depends on what you're talking about and what you're trying to establish as a "habit".
Does that make sense?
