03/03/2026
Hello March! How did you get here so fast!? If you feel a little down for not meeting your goals or following through with your intentions in 60 days, please know you are not alone.
The truth is that what we want out of life and how we want to feel is built one small step at a time, over a long time. The Olympic stories remind us of all the hard hard hard work that goes into becoming a master at their game.
I {Wendy} don't have any desire to go to the Olympics, but they do inspire me to show up the best I can. Not every day is stellar. Not every day is fun. Yet I show up anyway.
One of the benefits of working with a health coach is that when you feel a little down or lost or frustrated, you have someone in your corner cheering you on. 🥑🌱
This number is one of the most stubborn myths in self-help.
It comes from Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon in the 1960s. He noticed patients took about three weeks to adjust to seeing a new nose in the mirror.
Somehow, a stat about adjusting to facial surgery became the universal timeline for learning to exercise or speak Spanish.
Real habit formation? Much slower.
In Phillippa Lally's landmark study, the average time to reach "automaticity" (doing the thing without thinking) was 66 days. For some people, it took over 250 days.
This explains why so many of us quit after a month. We hit Day 21, realize it still requires effort, and assume we're broken.
We're not broken. We just haven't hit the plateau yet.
Stop counting days. Start counting reps.
