Why 25 Minutes Is All You Need To Start A New Habit

The biggest thing people get wrong with creating positive new habits is making it contingent on willpower. Sure, willpower is great — but it’s not going to last you months, years and maybe even decades. What you need is a solid plan with baby steps to keep you accountable, and that’s where 25 minutes comes in.

Why 25 minutes?
We have read blogs and stories about people who’ve mastered a language by studying three hours a day or read a book a week. But for the rest of us who have work, family and social lives to balance, taking out 3 hours is literally impossible. What isn’t impossible, is 25 minutes.

“ 25 minutes is just enough time to stick your teeth into something, but not so much you get put off by the enormity of the task.”

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How to get started with your 25 minute blocks?

1. Pick a time
   2. Select your goal
      3. Sort out what you need
         4. Get started!
            5. Choose your structure
               This brings up to our next point! To make sure you stick to your 25 minutes habit blocks, it’s useful to have a visual reminder handy. You can do it however you like, but monthly lists with boxes works for me. Take some time to create a structure.
               If you stick too hard to your pattern you’ll feel terrible if you miss a day, but by leaving yourself some wriggle room it can be easier to bounce back if you miss a session or two.
               Once you’ve got your structure written up, blue tick it to somewhere where you’ll see it! I’ve got mine on my wardrobe mirror.
               As you go on, keep colouring in your boxes/ticking off your list/however you wrote up the structure in step 4. If you find you can only handle 25 minutes aside for 3 days a week, or maybe 25 minutes for 7! Then that’s fine. Keep colouring! If you go over 25 minutes give yourself a pat on the back! But don’t fill in more boxes. The structure is there to keep you doing it every day.
               6. Evaluate

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