The Ritual Plasticity Podcast

Every habit goes through three phases. The first 20 days approximately is phase number one, destruction. After that it's a renovation - there's a mess and you're confused. At 66 days, you'll reach what researchers call automaticity. This is the secret of the great athletes. They are spending all this energy on will power just to install the routine. Once the routine becomes automatic, the exciting thing is they free up their will power for their next routine to be installed.