The Significance of 21 Days
Posted on October 11, 2012 by Julie DeVito, One of Thousands of Business Coaches on Noomii.
You can create amazing change in just 21 days! Apply proven research to your situation, and you will get new results.
In my role as a success coach and as a doctoral student of psychology, I read a lot of research journals about human behavior, motivation and goal realization. Resarch shows that it is more effective to create change by introducing new habits instead of focusing on self-discipline as a means to change. So, in other words, it’s better to introduce something new into your life to take the place of a bad habit instead of trying to use discipline to stop the bad habit.
Experiments support the 21 day theory about habit formation and have shown that it takes approximately 21 days to transition old memory patterns into new ones. If you do an act consistently for 21 days, it will become second nature–a habit.
Studies also indicate that when we try to change more than one thing at a time in our lives, we fail at significantly high rates as compared to those of us who select only one habit to change or create.
So start today. Pick only one thing to change. Focus on introducing one new habit, and do something different for 21 days.
