21 Days

I am a fan of social experiments. I conduct them most often in my romantic relationships with men - the most common being the "What Will Happen if I Ignore his Calls/Texts for 24 Hours?" Always fascinating results. I recently performed one at work. I was reading some notes that my coworker regularly writes up for a meeting. She remarked to me that nobody else read the notes but me. I said, "Let's test that theory." So for about 4 weeks, we included one silly statement in the notes - to see if anyone would notice. No one did. In fact, it wasn't until we added several silly statements (one statement being "Staff discussed which came first, the chicken or the egg. General consensus was the egg preceded the chicken. A workgroup was formed to determine where the egg came from.") that coworkers started to notice. It was pretty fun. It was also successful.

Coming off of the high I just experienced from a successful social experiment on my coworkers, I would like to try one on myself. I would like to test the hypothesis, "Can you really form or break a habit in 21 days?" I am going to take a physical activity habit I would like to adopt, and a eating habit I would like to stop and I am going to try and see if this whole 21 day theory works. If it can work on ME, it can work on anyone because I am QUEEN of not being able to commit to some things. I am not going to reveal the habits I will be starting/stopping (although you might be able to figure it out if you read this blog) but I will check in with you all on May 22 to let you know how it goes.