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

and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

I'm walking beside the lake that is behind our community,

and even though I'm out pretty early this morning,

usually even when I'm out early, there's some activity on the lake.

Ducks, we've got geese, heron.

Typically, that's what I see. And right now, I don't see anything.

I've also seen beavers in this lake.

At one end there's a place where beavers have built a dam.

And of course this is the lake where the alligator used to live.

I don't think the alligator is in here anymore.

Alligators from what I understand when it gets colder, they're not as active, and so that

would not be unusual to not see them this time of year.

But at the moment, I don't see anything.

No ducks, no geese, no heron, no nothing.

How long does it take to build a habit?

You probably, as I asked that question, probably thought of a number,

something that you've heard over the years.

Maybe you've been listening to this podcast long enough and you know where I'm going with this.

It takes a lot longer, a lot longer to build a habit than most of us realize.

Certainly it takes a lot longer to build a habit than the number that I was taught or learned growing up.

And I think that can be a dangerous thing when we think it takes this amount of time, but in

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