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.
Some people argue itâs more like 21 days, or 30; still others say that it takes 30 days to create a pattern and 90 days to create a habit. Obviously, some habits are easier to break than others.