Habit forming.
Nov. 24th, 2009 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owsf2000According to my sister, forming a good (or bad) habit takes approximately 21 days. By this she means if you can keep doing something for that long, it'll essentially become a part of your routine and you'll find yourself doing it automatically.
I'm going to try this out to see what happens. First two habits to form will be:
1. Daily exercise. I'm going to start off easy on this one, and try to just do a few pushups and situps each day when I wake up. It won't be making me buff or anything but it will get me into a routine, and hopefully I'll use that to encourage me to expand the routine later.
2. Doing the dishes immediately after eating. I have a problem with letting dishes pile up before I sit down and wash'em all. They're not really dirty mind you. I rinse them in the sink after I'm finished with them but I don't actually wash them and put them back up in the cupboard. Tends to hurt my back to lean over the sink doing a lot of dishes (Why no, I don't have a dishwasher!) so hopefully by doing them as I use them it'll be easier on me.
It's the 24th right now, so I'll report on the results of this on December 15th to confirm if I actually managed to stick with them and then again on Christmas to see how things are progressing afterwards.
I'm going to try this out to see what happens. First two habits to form will be:
1. Daily exercise. I'm going to start off easy on this one, and try to just do a few pushups and situps each day when I wake up. It won't be making me buff or anything but it will get me into a routine, and hopefully I'll use that to encourage me to expand the routine later.
2. Doing the dishes immediately after eating. I have a problem with letting dishes pile up before I sit down and wash'em all. They're not really dirty mind you. I rinse them in the sink after I'm finished with them but I don't actually wash them and put them back up in the cupboard. Tends to hurt my back to lean over the sink doing a lot of dishes (Why no, I don't have a dishwasher!) so hopefully by doing them as I use them it'll be easier on me.
It's the 24th right now, so I'll report on the results of this on December 15th to confirm if I actually managed to stick with them and then again on Christmas to see how things are progressing afterwards.
