Girlfriends, episode number 307, seven ways to get motivated to exercise.

Hello, and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission

to help you. Know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living.

This week, we're talking about finding the motivation

to exercise. I need help. I bet you do too. Let's talk about it.

Hey, girlfriend, welcome to the show. I'm so glad you are here connecting with me about the podcast. Good for you. You've hit play on how to get motivated to exercise. That's step number one. I think you're already succeeding. At least I like to hope that's true because I'm putting out this podcast and I need it as much as you do. I need the motivation to exercise. Here in New Hampshire,

we are in the drudgery of wintertime, post-holidays, full on winter blah mode where we're

below zero temperatures. It is the worst. In the summertime,

I don't so much need motivation. I love to go out for a walk. I love to go out for a run.

I love to be active outdoors and, you know, do all kinds of things like going on hikes and whatever.

But in the wintertime, I feel like

I just want to like eat cookies and snuggle under a blanket and watch television and then

maybe eat some macaroni and cheese. I don't know. Does that sound good to you right now? That sounds

pretty good to me right now. So, you know, after our New Year's resolutions,

maybe some of us made some commitments to exercise that we've already fallen away from.

This is just a little pep talk for you, for me, about the importance of being committed to

exercise and staying active regardless of what time of year it is, regardless of how low the temperatures are

dipping outside. You know, funny story, whenever the temperatures go below zero and I hear like,

you know, the news report on the radio or whatever here in New Hampshire, and they're like,

it's going to be five below tonight. I always remember that, like, it was probably about seven or eight

years ago now. I made a friend,

I ran into this woman at the library and we were just kind of chit-chatting. And she had recently

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