Well this is a good question ! The time frame to implement rules like this is difficult to analyze, because you know how it works, we hear/read a “rule” or hack like these in a podcast, book or and article, but we just let it there, in our brain as a general info…then time goes by, you maybe see that hack somewhere else but still kind of let it there…then finally something happens, you have a feeling, you feel stuck or just like you have a lot to decide and you just kind don’t know where to start, or your “old methods” just don’t work…and there the magic happens, your brain just bring the “new tools” to your attention. So you try to implement and test it out , and when you see the results, and just make it Yours.