21 Days to Build a Habit is Rubbish

I can confirm, it doesn’t take 21 days to build a habit. Or 42 days. Or 90 days.

I know, because I’ve been blogging for 600 days in a row, and it’s still not a habit.

It takes conscious effort every day to make myself do it.

But it turns out, the habit I was forming all wasn’t blogging each day.

The habit I was forming was discipline.

I was building the habit of making myself write the blog post, even when it sucks.

But nobody wants to hear that because it’s not microwavable advice.

But that’s the truth.

Even 600 days isn’t enough to build a blogging habit.

Often, I get to the end of the day and think “Ahhh! I forgot to write my blog!”

Zero blogging habit ingrained.

But then, even though I reeeeally don’t feel like it, I make myself do it anyway.

That’s the real habit.