New Habits

I read somewhere that it takes about three weeks to establish a new habit. I started writing this blog earlier this spring with every intention of writing a short entry every day, without missing a single day. After seventeen days of writing daily, I stopped. February 23 was my last blog posting. So maybe this is an example of the "three-week rule." Maybe if I had just posted something for four more days, I would have arrived at that "magic" number of 21 days, and writing the blog daily would have become a new habit, a part of my daily routine. I'll give it another try, see if I can write for 21 consecutive days, and create a new, good habit. It would seem to be a simple thing to learn a new habit, but sometimes simple things are not as simple as they seem, especially when it comes to human behavior. Stand by.