Have you ever considered setting a one day, I can do this goal?

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.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day.

I'm walking right now, and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

I am more and more convinced that the biggest challenge to fitness is not physical, it's mental.

We convince ourselves that it's too hard, that it's not working, or that we're not good enough.

And that last one sometimes can have really deep roots.

For example, when I was a kid, I played basketball, baseball, and soccer.

And I was not very good.

I was always the last one chosen.

And those years when I was on an organized team,

I was sitting on the bench far more than I was in the arena.

In fact, the year that I played soccer

in high school, the season-ending banquet as the coach was talking about each player and their

accomplishments for the season, the best, and I appreciate, he said some nice things about me, but in terms of my accomplishments,

the best he could come up with, because it was the only thing I gave him,

was David almost scored a goal in the game against Brooklyn Park.

You know, and so when you have a history like that,

you can begin to believe that you're not good enough.

I'm not good enough.

Who am I fooling?

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