Goal Failure
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
During today's ten-minute walk, Dave reflects on some of his biggest goal failures in recent years. Reaching goals is hard and understanding why they fail can be helpful moving forward.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, are you ready to do this thing, this 10-minute walk together? |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to Walking is Fitness, a podcast of action as we walk together for 10 minutes, holding |
| 0:13.0 | each other accountable for keeping our commitment to fitness. |
| 0:17.0 | This episode is sponsored by the Step Fit Plan as we get close to 2022 and you are considering |
| 0:22.7 | your fitness goals. Why not give the Step Fit plan a try? It's free. So we'll put that out right up |
| 0:29.2 | front. It's a guide to help you intentionally transform your walking from merely functional |
| 0:36.5 | to fitness. |
| 0:38.5 | It starts with creating a fitness habit, which takes intentionality, which takes commitment, |
| 0:45.2 | which takes action. |
| 0:47.0 | That habit eventually transitions into momentum, fitness momentum, leading to fitness transformation. |
| 0:56.0 | The Stepfit plan, it is free, it is yours, and it is effective. |
| 1:01.0 | Go to walking is fitness.com, the resource page. |
| 1:05.0 | There's also a link in the show notes for this episode. |
| 1:09.0 | Hi, I'm Dave. Well, here we are just a couple of days away from a |
| 1:13.3 | brand new year. And if like me, you are considering your goals, New Year's resolutions, |
| 1:23.5 | I have got the most depressing statistic ever for you. |
| 1:32.6 | Only 8% of all goals are ever reached. |
| 1:35.0 | This is according to research. |
| 1:50.0 | Only 8%, which means that 92% of all the goals that are set for January 1st will fail before December 31st of next year. And I am not telling you this to shame you, to discourage you, or even to prevent you from setting goals. |
| 2:01.0 | I think goals are a good thing. |
| 2:03.1 | And even though, and I haven't done the math, |
| 2:06.2 | I'm sure that if I were to go back and look at all of the goals |
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