Today's 10 minute walk is helping you keep your fitness promise, which adds another link to your growing fitness chain.

It is very early morning. Once again, I am up and out before the sun is up and out, but not before that jet is taking off

at the nearby airport. Ava is still at home, in bed, asleep. We are so different when it comes to

the morning people and evening people.

I guess those are the terms. I've been a morning person as long as I can remember.

Ava, not a morning person at all. In fact, there were days, there was a season where she was consistently staying up late, and I mean well after

midnight. And she would be coming to bed as I was getting up to go to the radio station to do

the morning show. That's how different we are. So that I am out here walking before the sunrise is not unusual for me.

It would be highly unusual for Ava.

Listening to a podcast recently and the host was reflecting on the year so far, what has gone well,

what he still needs to work on.

And he mentioned something that I thought,

well, that's an interesting way to put it.

At the beginning of the year, he had,

and I'll use my terminology first,

he made a fitness promise to walk one mile every day.

He didn't say anything about a fitness chain, building a fitness chain, but he gave himself a checkmark on that goal because it's something that he has been doing since the beginning of the year.

And that's fantastic because so few goals that begin around New Year's day

actually survive past three weeks, you know, so that he is this far into the year and still going after it is

really pretty amazing. Now, I'm using my terminology that he made a fitness promise. That's not

the terminology that he used. He called it something else that I was like, that's a really interesting way to look at it.

And so that's what we're going to do.

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