Today, a simple hack that can help you find some motivation to take the walk when you're struggling just a bit.

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a daily 10-minute podcast designed to help you create a life-changing walking habit.

Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this.

I don't know if you'll be able to pick it up in my voice.

My voice sounds different when it's colder.

I've noticed that.

I don't know if you have.

And today it is, it might be colder than yesterday.

Certainly the temperature is, it's about four degrees colder,

28 today yesterday, I think it was 32 when I was recording.

Yesterday the winds though gave it a wind chill of 15, so it was pretty brutal.

Apparently the winds aren't quite as strong this morning,

although walking over to where I'm recording,

they felt just as strong,

and it felt even colder than yesterday.

Although at the moment, where I'm walking,

I've got some trees blocking the wind, so grateful for that.

And I'm in the sunshine.

And so at the moment, it's not as cold as it was heading over here.

So this is the time of year when exercise promises, routines,

commitments tend to go south, were long past that initial emotional motivation of Wahoo.

This is the year I'm going to make the big change. This is the year I'm going to

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