How to Make Running a Habit

The Power of Habits

In my almost three decades on this earth I came to learn a very important truth about life. This shattering realization can mean disaster or bliss for you. You Choose.

Ready? Here it is.

We, the members of this awesome human species, pride ourselves on our high levels of ingenuity and creativity, but if we strip ourselves from all the pride and grandiosity and really study our behavior—just like an alien would do—we will wake up to a sobering but really painful realization:

We are nothing but creatures of habits, and we—mostly unconsciously—repeat 95 percent of our physical and mental patterns, from one day to the next. And that’s good thing.

In other words, everything you do each day is the consequence of the actions you repeat over and over again, day after day.