If you're brand new to this podcast and you're just getting started with walking as a fitness activity,

and your journey has been stop and go and maybe there's been way too much stop and not enough go,

today I want to suggest something, a change that you could make that could be a huge game

changer.

Welcome to Walking as Fitness.

This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that

fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013, still take an intentional fitness walk every single day. I'm walking right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

About a year ago I asked listeners if you would send me suggestions, things that I'm doing on the podcast that maybe you don't like, or things that I'm not doing that you would like me to start doing.

And I said, be honest.

Rather you tell me about changes I could make, then simply you stop listening because

it wasn't working for you anymore. And I got some wonderful responses. And then there was one

email from a listener, very short, stop talking about yourself so much. Because I was beginning

to drift into talking about things going on in my world that had

nothing to do with walking. With that in mind, I'd like your permission to tell a story,

something that just happened, that on the surface has nothing to do with walking, but it has everything to do with beginning a fitness journey that actually sticks.

When Ava and I moved from Maryland to South Carolina, we downsized considerably.

And we really felt that and still feel that in how much space we have for storage.

And one of the goals that we had when we moved in was to actually increase our storage by being really

creative and intentional with where we put some new shelves.

And we have a laundry room, it's not big, but there's plenty of space above the washer

and the dryer for shelving, which is where we can store things, like Christmas decorations

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