Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself,

which adds another link to your growing fitness chain.

Let me paint the picture for today's walk.

Give you the context.

Right now, I'm leaving an apartment building. This is where our son Aaron and his wife,

Natasha, live. The traffic you hear, it's a really busy freeway, lovingly referred to as

the 15, a busy freeway in the San Diego area.

Our quick trip to the West Coast to visit several of our sons continues.

Today it was Andrew in the Santa Barbara area.

Today it's Aaron and Noah.

Noah is stationed in the Marine Corps, just was transferred from Quantico

in Virginia to Pendleton here in the San Diego area so we get to see both Aaron and

Noah and so spent the night with Aaron and Natasha and today's 10-minute walk is an experiment in real time.

So let me explain what I mean by that.

Fitness is hard. It's hard physically.

It's also hard emotionally.

Not just the idea of building a habit,

making a fitness promise, keeping that promise on days when it's hard,

sometimes it also feels awkward. And this is something that I have experienced for as long as I

can remember. The idea that when I'm doing fitness that people are watching me, I think it was

a real deal breaker when I tried the

gym several different times. I would go to the gym and just felt uncomfortable, felt like people

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