Dan Lacey.

Research shows that forming a new habit takes an average of 66 days, and can take up to 254 days! This is a long way from the more common misconception that it only takes 21 days. Perhaps this is why so many of us struggle to form new, positive habits… we begin the process with misguided expectations.

I think another common problem with forming new habits is that we often try to do too much at once. It can be easy to get motivated and think we can start going to the gym five times a week, eat a salad every day, get up an hour earlier, stop watching TV, read an hour a night, start going for daily walks, start a gratitude journal, go teetotal and stay off social media all at once.