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Will I stop at 2,000, 10,000, or 22 years from now, I don’t know. For now, I am going to continue to grow my goal and reap the benefits of that initial challenge I posed for myself. While I am open to congratulatory celebrations on this accomplishment, I have a lesson that I hope you’ll take away from reading about my experience and apply to your own goal-getting. When I first started this challenge, 100 days was a stretch for me, but it was also something I knew I could achieve if I tried. If I had set the goal of 250 days or running 5 miles each day, I do not think I would have made it 100 days, let alone 1,500. Being realistic about where I was starting from and thinking about how far I could stretch myself was what led to the success of the first 100 days, then the first 365 days, then the first 500 days. We know that success, especially when coupled with effort, feels good, and that is what leads us to growing our goals. 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