[mingusrude]

> Identifying that habit as part of who you are is key to it being sticky.

This has always been key to me. I've succeeded to identify myself as a runner, as someone who speaks French, as someone who reads books. But my identification as someone who has meaningful programming side-project, who has a garden and so on is to weak to succeed.

[fifilura]

I never liked running. But my trick was to start a run-streak, https://runeveryday.com/.

And there are certain thresholds from the article that I can identify with. 21 days to a month as the main hurdle to pass obviously.

But then some place around 6 months, where you realize that it is impossible that this day, today, is the day I will end my streak.

All these past days just keeps pushing me on like a steamroller that picked up pace.