Today's 10 minute walk is helping you create a walking habit you will love.

Hi, I'm Dave. If you're brand new, welcome. I want to offer you 90 days to a walking habit you'll love.

It's a five-part plan that I believe will change your life. It's free. There's a link in the show notes. Today's walk is going to be a little

bit noisier than usual. Number one, I'm walking into the wind. It's a breezy day here in

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. So you're going to hear that. I'm also walking next to a busy road

that at the moment isn't busy, but I turn around, see a couple

of vehicles that are getting ready to drive by, so you're going to hear traffic as well.

I want to read a comment. This is to a recent Walking-I-Fitness fitness YouTube video. The comment,

I'm done with goals. I'm into creating new habits,

understanding that they are slow at first and eventually become automatic. This change in

verbiage gets rid of guilt, remorse, all manner of emotional baggage, that is completely counterproductive.

Yes, I'm walking every day, some days indoors.

This is a really thought-provoking comment, and I want to unpack it just for a moment.

Starting with the very first sentence, I'm done with goals. I understand the

sentiment behind this and for me over the years, my relationship with goals has changed. I used to be hugely into goals. Always had to have big goals that I was working towards. Love the first of the year and creating new goals and the excitement that came with that. But over time, I recognize that most of those goals, no matter how they were framed

or worded, ended up in failure. And that was frustrating. That was discouraging. I cannot say that I'm

done with goals, but my relationship with goals is different.

Moving here to Myrtle Beach four and a half years ago, that was a huge goal that could not

have been accomplished by creating habits.

What this viewer says, they're done with goals, instead they're focused on creating habits.

And I'll unpack that just a little bit more in a moment, but I still think there is a place

for goals, for big goals, that can help and motivate me to accomplish things in a way that habits cannot.

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