Read this to find out about the newer research that trumps the old popular belief, showing that it actually takes 66 days to create a new habit.

There is a popular belief that it takes 21 days to re-create new neuro-pathways through the brain, to create the new habit. This statement came from Doctor Maxwell Maltz in the 1950s from a research with patients that were receiving plastic surgery. It would take them in average 21 days in order to get us to their new nose for example, As you can realize now, this research, although quite popular is quite dated. I prefer to follow the results of Doctor Phillippa Lally which conducted a research in 2009 with volunteers who chose an eating, drinking or activity behaviour to carry out daily in the same context for 12 weeks. The study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology reported that the average time to reach automaticity for performing an initially new behaviour was 66 days.