It is often said it takes 21 says to form or break a habit. I am not sure how true this is but that is about right for me. If I keep doing something each day somewhere between 21-30 days it starts being routine. Many people want to start or stop habits but think it will be hard or take a lot of time. It may very well be hard if you are curbing an addiction or trying to exercise daily when you have never done it in your life but you have to start the journey.
Morgan Spurlock did his show “30 Days” where he placed himself or another willing participant in a situation for, you guessed it, 30 days. There were 18 episodes in the original run from 2005-2008 (source: IMDB). If memory serves, those 30 days were always an eye opener for the participant and those around them and many good things seem to come out of the days they spent together.
Imagine if you looked within yourself and decided to do one thing you always wanted to do and committed to doing it for 30 days. Would it change your life? Better yet, would it hurt you in any way? I ask the hurt question because if the answer is a resounding ‘no’ that it wouldn’t hurt and you could commit the time for a 30 day span then why not try it?
This article was completely inspired by a TEDTalk I ran across a few days ago that was given in 2011 by Matt Cutts. It is only 3 1/2 minutes and I encourage you to give it a brief watch and see if it inspires you to try something new for just 30 days.
