Our Dadly Daily Declaration series continues today with readings from Robin Sharma‘s newest book, The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning, Elevate Your Life.
Today’s reading explains encoding a habit and the timeframe to do so. Here are a few gems from today’s reading:
- On the coding of any new habit, you’ll move through an initial period of destruction. Keep at it and you’ll definitely move ahead into the second stage of the process, where new neural pathways are formed and the real installation begins. This is the messy middle. Finally, as you stick with your practice of making any fresh routine your normal way of being, you’ll arrive at the final—and wonderful—stage: integration. The whole exercise takes approximately sixty-six days, according to the research data of University College London.
- The things that feel hardest are also the ones that are most valuable.
- When faced with a choice, always choose the one that pushes you the most, increases your growth and promotes the unfoldment of your gifts, talents and personal prowess.
- If it wasn’t hard initially, it wouldn’t be real—and valuable—change.
Those quotes lead us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
It takes sixty-six days of training to make a new habit yours. If encoding this new habit wasn’t difficult at the start, it wouldn’t be real change. It’s supposed to be hard because you’re rewriting the past patterns of your mind and destroying old ways of operating. And rewiring past programs of your heart and emotions.
The first phase of creating any new habit—The Destruction Stage—is precisely like this. You need to overcome your deeply ingrained habits, dominant rituals and traditional states of performance. You need to rise above your own forces of gravity—until your escape velocity kicks in…Continue at all costs. Persistency sits at the threshold of mastery.
