When i was 14 years old i drank Coke every day. i drank Coke and Pepsi and Sunkist and Sprite and on and on and on...
all day long every day.
at every meal and in between every meal i drank sodas. loved them. never dreamed i would ever stop.
When i was 14 my whole soccer team decided to not drink any soda for 30 days. just during some big tournaments that were coming up.
i did actually feel amazing for 30 days. i felt free... like weights were lifted off.
but i couldn't wait to have a Coke when the 30 days were up. i could almost taste it.
on the 31st day i poured myself a BIG glass of Coke. Watched the fizz bubble up & then go back down. filled it up again to almost overflowing...
and then...
i took a big...
long...
cold...
sweet...
gulp.
and it was...
NASTY.
it tasted horrible. i hated it. i think i forced myself to drink it and i felt awful the rest of the day. i felt like something was burning my insides. i burped all day long. that was not cool.
i tried for a few more days to like Coke again. or any soda. but i just didn't like it.
i had formed a habit - not drinking soda. i didn't like it anymore. and i felt amazing. i felt like i could run like the wind.
so i just went with it.
and now it's 14 years later. i'm 28. and i haven't had a soda for 14 years.
half my life.
for half my life - 14 years - i drank sodas every single day. then i took 30 days to form a new habit. and now i haven't had another soda for these past 14 years.
habits are formed in 30 days or less. that's pretty crazy. and they could be STRONG habits that affect the rest of your life.
so what kind of habit could/should you form over the next 30 days?
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