Maintaining Your Streak is the Secret to Reaching Pretty Much Any Goal
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My daughter, Ruby, hits up her three best friends in Reno every night on Snapchat before she goes to bed every night.
They’re all on Pacific time, three hours earlier than we are here in Pennsylvania. They’re still doing their homework or maybe watching TV when she’s falling asleep.
But she does…whatever fifteen year olds do on Snapchat. Sends them funny, filtered pictures. Makes jokes. Answers whatever they sent her last.
She does it, even if she’s exhausted. Even if she’s been up all night with basketball and homework. Even if she’s sick. Even if she’s miserable for some reason.
When her phone is out of commission, she scrambles to borrow mine or her dad’s.
No matter what’s going on in her life, she’s touched all three of these friend via Snapchat every night since November 2018, when we moved. Because they have a streak and she doesn’t want to be the one to break it.