Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Habits

I apologize for the long stretch with out a post. It is my general goal to get some good information up here once or twice a week. Just lost my consistent flow, which leads me to my thought for this day.....

It takes 21 days of consistent effort to build a new habit. Just 21 days of doing something different or new every day to get a new habit. There are changes that I have been working on but nothing that I have done for 21 days in a row.

It is important to pick one or two things that you want to change or start a new, otherwise you will lose momentum trying to change everything all at once. So for example instead of trying to quit smoking, save money every week for retirement, eat less than 2000 calories a day, make sure the kitchen is clean every evening and work out more pick one or two items from that pile and work on those until they are a habit.

For me I think the biggest habit I would like to start is being able to plan out all of my meals for the day. I often skip packing a lunch for the day if the left overs don't look good which either causes me to eat too little for lunch and thus over eat at dinner, or I go grab some type of fast food, which almost always has more calories than if I had made it at home.
What habits would you like to work on?