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mousme ([personal profile] mousme) wrote2006-01-04 03:45 pm

Famous last words...

So how hard can it be to replace a bad habit with a good habit?

[identity profile] toughlovemuse.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Only three weeks? Really? I've heard everything up to six months myself.

(And personally I find it's easy to keep anything up for a month and after that it's out the window.)

[identity profile] mousme.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it depends on the habit. Stuff that you repeat every day and is small and relatively easy to do (for instance, washing your hands the minute you step through the front door) I can see only taking 21 days.

Other things which are either not done as often (exercise three times a week) or else which have to be broken down into component steps (write for an hour each day, which takes planning and so forth) would probably take longer to become an ingrained habit.