1 But hot water washes use five times the energyâand create five times the emissions. This could save you nearly $100 a year.  Buy less stuff. Reduce, re-use, and recycleâitâs not just about pollution, but the strategy will lower your emissions too and help combat global warming.
Most people believe that habits are formed by completing a task for 21 days in a row. Twenty-one days of task completion, then voila, a habit is formed. Unfortunately, this could not be further from the truth. The 21-day myth began as a misinterpretation of Dr. Maxwell Maltzâs work on self-image. Maltz did not find that 21 days of task completion forms a habit. People wanted it to be true so much so, however, that the idea began to grow in popularity.
After all, forming new habits never goes out of style, whether weâre talking about New Yearâs Resolutions or just a few changes you think it might be time to make. The 21 Days Myth: According to a piece James Clear wrote for the Huffington Post, the origins of the myth that it takes 21 days to form a new habit can be traced back to the 1950s. Plastic surgeon Maxwell Maltz noticed that when he performed operations like nose jobs on his patients, it took them about 21 days to get used to seeing their new face.