Motivation is weather; systems are climate. How a visible streak rewires the decision to show up until it stops being a decision at all.
Motivation is weather. It arrives, it leaves, and planning around it is how people end up starting over every January.
A visible streak moves the question from do I feel like it to am I breaking this. Those are not the same question, and the second one is much easier to answer.
The streak only works if the bar is low enough to clear on your worst day. Log one meal. Do the warm-up. The point is the unbroken chain, not the heroics.
Miss a day and start again the same day. A streak that makes you miserable when it breaks has stopped being a tool.
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