Hi friends. I'm standing in my kitchen right and I'm going to tell you a story in just a moment.

This week's Walking is Fitness podcast starts with a story that actually happened right here where I'm standing.

I was standing here and the other person in the story was standing right there.

It happened at the beginning of the year back in January,

and what has transpired since then,

pretty amazing and really an important lesson for me,

and I hope an important lesson for you. It's all about getting our house ready to sell.

It's sold. It's empty now. We've actually bought a new house and all of our possessions, belongings are the new house.

We're still waiting to close on this house,

and so it's empty. And I'm enjoying being here for just a few more days. Anyhow, back to the story.

It was profound. It was profound.

It was hard.

And the lessons that I learned, I really believe, are life-changing.

They certainly will be for me.

And I hope you can get a little something from this as well.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a podcast designed to help you transform your life by walking more and walking more intentionally. And today, a story and a lesson that I hope

matters to you. You ready? Let's get started.

My real estate agent called it deferred maintenance. I thought it was being kind as we walked through my house for the first time. I was embarrassed by its

condition brought on by years of neglect. In that simple two-word description used by my agent that January afternoon

was a powerful truth I would fully understand nine months later. It's a truth that can also

change your life. If you listen to this podcast for a while, you've probably come to realize it's really not a podcast about walking.

Nobody needs weekly instruction on how to walk.

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