If you want to create a walking habit that's going strong a year from now, there are three things you must do.

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking as Fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you with a little added motivation to get out the door, take the walk, and even more importantly, to help you keep going to build that consistent habit.

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

If you want a walking habit that is still going strong a year from now,

there are three things that you must do the first two you'll

probably go yep that makes sense number three your reaction might be really that

matters in fact you might even think it's cheesy but in my opinion number

three is potentially the most effective.

All right. Number one, whatever your starting goal is, it's probably too big.

May 25, 1961, President John Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress and towards the end of the speech, he announced a goal.

He wanted the United States to commit to landing a man on the moon and returning him safely

to the earth before the end of the decade.

Lots of applause.

That goal captured the imagination of the public as well as those in Congress.

Here's the thing.

When President Kennedy set that as a goal, the United States had only put one astronaut into space for all of 15 minutes.

And number two, they weren't even sure that they could actually land a spacecraft on the moon and have it take off.

Not from a technological standpoint, an engineering standpoint.

They weren't entirely sure what the surface of the moon was like.

It was possible that it was layers and layers of fine dust

and the spacecraft would simply sink.

Not good.

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