Good morning. I know it may not be morning as you're listening to this, but it is morning as I'm recording, and I've got my first cup of coffee.

It's actually one of my favorite parts of the day. As much as I love walking, I do. that first cup of coffee and sitting is just magical.

And one of my favorite days with that first cup of coffee is usually a day or two before the end of the year.

Between Christmas and New Year, I'll go to Washington, D.C., and sit down on my

favorite coffee shop, Ebeneezers, it's a block away from Union Station. I'll get my coffee. I've got

my Moleskin notebook and a pencil, and I'll start dreaming about the upcoming year. I'll write down a few

things that I want to accomplish in the new year. My New Year's resolutions, my New Year's goals.

And I always leave Ebenezers on that particular morning with a lot of motivation. I'm energized. I'm excited about the

coming New Year because I've essentially mapped out transformation that I want to see happen

over the next 365 days.

And that's exciting.

That's energizing.

Hi, this is Dave.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a podcast designed to help you transform your life by walking more and walking more intentionally.

Now, I know that we still have many weeks before that morning in Ebeneasers,

before I sit down and map out 2021.

But I am going to encourage you and challenge you not to wait until right before the new year to set your goals for

2021 but instead to do it right now and not only to to set those goals but also to begin working

toward them particularly in the area of exercise and fitness.

I'm going to tell you about two things that happened in 2020.

Two goals that I set. They were not set right before January 1st.

They were actually set, I think one of them was in February and the other one was in June.

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