Today's 10 minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent.

Let's go for a walk.

I don't think it's going to start raining before we're done today.

The forecast is calling for rain to start in about 45 minutes. And I can see off in the distance,

some flashes of lightning, can't hear any thunder, so it's still, still weighs away. But I have done

this before, or I've checked the forecast. Oh, you got time. Go ahead. Take that 30-minute walk. Take that 10-minute walk.

You're not going to get wet. And I leave the house without the umbrella. And then 10 minutes later,

oh, look, it's raining. So I'm aware that I could get wet before we're done.

Long comment to one of the Walking is Fitness YouTube videos,

and I'm not going to read this entire comment,

but essentially much of the comment is around motivation and finding motivation,

and how hard that can be.

This viewer has to give herself a pep talk to get out and

take the walk. And even during the walk, there are these motivational self-talks about how important

this is, how good this is. And motivation is hard, particularly when you're in the early

stages, and I have no idea whether this viewer is someone who's just getting started with walking

or has been doing this for a while and is still struggling with motivation. But certainly in those

early stages, once you're past the initial Wahoo, this is going to change my life, it can be hard

to find the motivation to head out and take a walk, particularly if there are circumstances

that are conspiring against you, like rain is in the forecast. And so finding that motivation

can be really hard and it's much easier to find excuses.

That is when motivation is a challenge.

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