[chegra84]

1. It takes on average 66 days for a habit to be formed.[1]

2. The intensity need not be there to form the habit. After a habit is formed you can increase the intensity of the activity. Start small like reading 2 pages a day and add a page every two weeks. This is probably the most important step.

3. Willpower is at a maximum right after waking, so whatever you are trying to accomplish do it first thing in the morning.

4. Stop dieting. It will burn through your willpower.

[1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5857845/It-take...

[deepGem]

Thanks. From the Article "Results showed that whilst the average time to form a habit was 66 days, more complex behaviours took longer, whilst an exercise habit took longer to form than a healthy eating or drinking habit". So learning RoR or any programming language might take longer.

[kcurtin]

Interesting article.

Making incremental increases makes sense. I can see that helping with the issue of getting overwhelmed by details and frustration from getting ahead of yourself.

[chegra84]

I wrote about it here like a year ago: http://chestergrant.posterous.com/consistently-underperformi...