bust a...

no, not a "move", a habit.
you know the saying "do something for 21 days and it becomes a habit.
really....?
it's been 21 days and my body is not feeling like it's a habit yet.
my mind, body and heart knows that this habit has not sunk in yet. creating a new positive habit is hard and i really don't know if exercise will ever become habitual.
i need to bust out of this mentality.

what they say about habits...
The essence of the technique is simply to devote 15 minutes a day to the formation of any habit you wish to establish, and do this faithfully for 21 days. By the fourth week, it should actually be harder not to engage in the new behavior than it would be to continue doing it.

This applies to any type of habit, whether it is a physical practice or a way of perceiving something, such as self image. It will also help to establish the habit if the behavior, such as jogging, is performed at the same time of day every day.

Other senses can be utilized to establish the habit. For example, if you want to establish the habit of meditating, you can reinforce the practice by wearing the same clothing, burning the same incense, occupying the same location, and assuming the same posture.

The more senses you can involve in the new habit, the more likely it is to become ingrained in the neural pathways, so, even if you're working on your self image in a mental construct, it's helpful to use all the faculties of your imagination to include sights, sounds, smells, and the senses of feeling and taste to strengthen the image which you come to associate with your new self image. In other words, make it seem as real as possible.

If you miss a day, just keep going until you've been doing the new behavior for 21 days in a row.

First introduced by Dr. Maxwell Maltz, in a book titled, "Psycho-Cybernetics". Originally a Plastic Surgeon, Maltz noticed that it took 21 days for amputees to cease feeling phantom sensations in the amputated limb. From further observations he found it took 21 days to create a new habit. Since then the '21 Day Habit Theory' has become an accepted part of self-help programs.

He based this on the facts that brain circuits take engrams (memory traces), and produce neuroconnections and neuropathways only if they are bombarded for 21 days in a row. This means that our brain does not accept ‘new’ data for a change of habit unless it is repeated each day for 21 days (without missing a day)."

interesting, maybe it's not working because i'm missing sunday...
but i need one day to rest!