Exercise Streaks

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Over the last eight years I discovered the power of a daily running streak. I started running everyday on 10/06/2008.

The bottom line for me is this habit has hard wired my brain not to think about IF I'm going to run/exercise but when! I know I'm going to run daily... For me this slight change in thinking was very empowering!

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