Category: habit
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The Science of Habits
Have you ever heard that it takes 60 days to form or change a habit? Well, that’s actually not true. I used to write about that being true, but new research and a mindshift change for me made me realize that habits can be very easy to create or change, IF you understand the science…
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What We Learned At The Habit Summit
We just got back from attending and speaking at the Habit Summit conference in San Francisco. We share some of the things we learned from the speakers at the Summit, such as: a new app that purports to fix your tech/life balance, that instead of “Hooked” everyone now wants to get “Unhooked”, and that the…
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The Science of Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work (And What To Do About It)
How many New Year’s resolutions have you made in your life? How many have you successfully accomplished? The estimate is that less than 10% of New Year’s resolutions are actually achieved (University of Scranton Psychology Professor John C. Norcross, Ph.D.). There’s a lot of homespun folksy advice out there this time of year about how…
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100 Things You Should Know About People: #84 — Average Time To Form A Habit Is 66 Days
You turn on your computer each morning and do the same activities: First you check your email, then you check Facebook, and go to weather.com to check the weather. (Or whatever your particular pattern is). You do this every day. It’s a habit. Why are you motivated to do these same tasks every day? What…
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100 Things You Should Know About People: #13 — Want To Change a Habit? Use Fun, Surprise, and a Crowd
Have a habit that you want to change? Or maybe you are trying to change the behavior of people at work? Or you want to change the behavior of people coming to your blog or website? If you read any of the research on habits you will find that habits are hard to change. (I’ll…
