The Do-It-Daily Challenge
Dr. Oz Good Life|January/February 2017

Regular exercise just wasn’t happening for Alyssa Shaffer, so she set a goal to do 15 minutes of something— anything—every day. You won’t believe how long she kept it going.

The Do-It-Daily Challenge

RESOLUTION REVOLUTION

Like most people, I used to approach December 31 with big ideas: I’ll run a marathon! Elliptical away my baby pooch! Become a yogi! These resolutions had a shelf life of, oh, two weeks. But in the waning days of 2014, I had an epiphany. Instead of setting a vague, never-gonna reach-it goal, I decided to keep it small and specific. I’d exercise for at least 15 minutes a day, every day. Why 15? Besides the nice repetition with the calendar year (“15 in ’15”), there was the fact that I had tweenage twins and a demanding job. That was as much time as I could reliably carve out.

This story is from the January/February 2017 edition of Dr. Oz Good Life.

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