Today's 10-minute walk is helping you create a walking habit you will love.

Hi, I'm Dave. One of the things that I love about this time of years that the birds seem to be a little more active.

And I don't know if you can hear it. I'm going to stop just for a moment. Can you hear the birds?

It's one of the things I love about walking outside and walking in the morning, walking this time of year.

It's not only beautiful to see, it's also beautiful to hear. In fact, I'm going to walk in the direction of this bird and see if I can get a little bit closer to it.

Creating a daily walking habit is hard because quite frankly creating any kind of habit is a challenge.

It usually takes a lot longer than we expect. I think sometimes we expect that

it's going to take 30 minutes. 30 minutes. Wouldn't that be great? We expect it's going to take 30 days

because that's what we've been told. But there's been some research that indicates on

average it takes about 66 days to create a habit. Some can do it in less time. Some need as much as

250 days. That's what about two-thirds of a year to create a habit and I think I'm probably right there in

that average of a couple of months to really create a habit that that lasts can you

hear that bird so I have a walking habit I have a habit of walking every day it's a

habit that has changed my life and I believe it's a habit that can change your life and it's a habit quite frankly that I love.

And I believe most people who commit to it and build this daily walking habit will fall in love with it as well.

But along the way I've made some mistakes, some mistakes that

could have sabotaged this habit, not only at the beginning, but even once it was established.

And these are mistakes that I don't want you to make. All right. So mistake number one was not thinking outside the box. Put

differently doing the same thing in the same way because it's what I've always done. Not

considering other options. Case in point. My shoes. The shoes that I use while I'm walking.

Before I made walking my regular fitness activity, I was a runner.

I did that for five years. I've talked about that.

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