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Double Your Success With This Simple Habit-Building Strategy

Today I'm sharing with you a strategy that one study found to DOUBLE (more than double actually) your success when putting a habit into practice. This step might be the thing you've been missing in your habit-building process!


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Sarah Milne, Sheina Orbell, and Paschal Sheeran, “Combining Motivational and Volitional Interventions to Promote Exercise Participation: Protection Motivation Theory and Implementation Intentions,” British Journal of Health Psychology 7 (May 2002): 163–184.


Hagger, M. S., & Luszczynska, A. (2014). Implementation intention and action planning interventions in health contexts: state of the research and proposals for the way forward. Health Psychology Review, 8(2), 115-130. doi: 10.1080/17437199.2013.858341

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