Welcome to the Graveyard of Goals. If we could eliminate this part of every goal journey,

the success rate of goals would go from 6%, probably to 90%. Hi, I'm Dave. welcome to walking is fitness, a podcast, daily podcast that provides a little added

motivation for you to get out and take the walk.

Today we've got a bonus walk and we'll get started after this.

No exaggeration. It's about 20 degrees hotter right now than when I walked this morning.

I've got full sunshine, a heat index that is right around 100.

Yeah, there's a big difference between walking in the morning, right around sunrise,

and then walking in the middle of the day.

So about 20 years ago, Ava and I had an addition put on to our house. We lived in

Maryland at the time. We had five children. We were in a rancher, three bedrooms, one bathroom,

very tiny galley kitchen. We thought about moving, even looked around at a couple of places, and decided it just

wasn't the best option.

And so we also considered putting this addition on.

Got some prices, met with a couple of builders and felt like, all right, this is the better option.

So as we were signing the contract, the builder said, just so you know, you're going to love

me at the beginning, you're going to love me at the end, you're going to hate me in the

middle.

And he was right.

Hate is a strong word.

But we loved him at the beginning because we were really excited about this edition.

It was going to expand our kitchen, really give Eva her dream kitchen.

It was going to add another bathroom and a couple

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