How can walking help you plan for retirement?

Welcome to walking is fitness.

This is a podcast of action,

providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself

because that is a hard thing.

Probably the hardest part of fitness.

In other words, right now, if you are walking, you are choosing to do a hard thing.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging just under 21,000 steps a day. I am walking right now and would

love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes or so. It is a mild morning in South Carolina,

the temperature 71 degrees, and I think we're actually headed for the mid 80s later this afternoon.

So I have mentioned before that retirement is on the radar screen for me. It's still several

years in the future. I have a target year.

At this point, I'm preparing.

I'm getting ready.

And I'm learning that the traditional view of retirement is really flawed.

The traditional view is save up enough money so you can stop working. And there are people who really hate their jobs. I have a friend who recently

retired. And for the last 10 years or so, it was a grind to go to work.

Just he hated it.

And the only part of the equation was reaching a certain number, a certain amount of money, so that he could leave and not worry about

the finances. But I'm learning that really the best thing is to look at retirement as a stool

that has three legs, and you need all three legs for a successful retirement.

Certainly, the money part is one of the legs.

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