Over 40 per cent of people surveyed began their streaks on January 1st, according to one study.
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00:03 Just try to be more healthy, cut back on my drinking and cigar
00:14 smoking, try to save up on some money,
00:16 and overall try to live a better life.
00:18 All the usual-- lose weight, drink less, exercise more.
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00:27 I did a survey of people who have daily streaks
00:30 or running at least one mile.
00:32 And there was over 40% of people in the survey
00:35 who began their streaks on January 1.
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00:41 You want to be in better health.
00:45 You may start a running streak or an exercise streak,
00:48 or if it's related to mental health,
00:49 perhaps a meditation streak.
00:52 People feel pressure to keep up their streaks.
00:55 It's a bigger goal, and people like to achieve goals.
00:59 So we have the daily behavior is a short-term goal.
01:03 Maintaining the streak is a longer-term goal.
01:06 So people are motivated for that reason.
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01:11,
01:27 For instance, they might have had a particular weight
01:32 that they had when they were in high school,
01:35 and they've hung on to that desired same weight
01:38 for decades.
01:41 But it's no longer relevant to who they are.
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