21 Days to a New Me

My grandfather passed away last week, so my family took a 7 hour drive to the funeral. It was a nice funeral. My grandfather was a great man and will be missed.
While we were on this drive my dad mentioned a speaker from his last convention that he worked. This speaker talked about how it only takes 21 days to break a bad habit or create a good one. The concept is, if you do the same thing everyday for 21 days than you feel awkward not doing it. So if you start to run everyday for 21 days than by the 22nd day you will feel weird not running. If you want to quit smoking then you try for 21 days and by the 22nd day you should be smoke free. This is supposed to work with anything. If you want to cut out a certain food out of your diet by the 22nd day you will not want it anymore.

I am going to apply this to my life. I have a ton of things I would like to change but I am going to take it one step at  time. My main thing is exercise. I have the hardest time finding time to exercise. I have decided that I am going to do anything I can to squeeze it into my daily life for 21 days. Hopefully by day 22 I will be wanting to exercise and not forcing myself. I am already on day 3. There is a great article on Healthy Lifestyle that has tips for getting motivated to exercise.  I will keep posting my progress.