Laura’s Reviews > Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick > Status Update

"This is a crucial point. You can miss a day or two and you will not be set back to zero. An omission is not a license to cheat or keep failing. Your habit-in-formation is not so fragile that it requires perfection."

"Most reassuring for those of us trying to form a new habit is that participants could miss a day or two without derailing what they had started. The day they began again, automaticity was almost as high as when they lapsed. Occasional gaps did not erase the emerging habit."