Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent, so let's go for a walk.

Saw a post on the Start Today Facebook group.

It was a while ago. I just made note of this.

It was by one of the members named Shelly.

She says, another fine morning, my ninth day in a row for a mile walk.

So I'm going to make the assumption that Shelley set a goal to walk a mile every day.

And when she posted this, she'd been doing it for nine days.

Still okay weather. So the weather, at least in the morning, probably similar to the weather

that I'm experiencing right now, is like, okay, this is fine, but then things can change.

It can get, I don't know where Shelley lives, could get hotter, could get, probably not cooler

at this point in the year, but for now, the weather, at least when she made this post, was,

as she put it, it was okay.

I'm not deterred by all people who walk five plus miles each day. And that's what I want

to focus on. First off, I love her attitude. I'm not deterred by those who are walking five miles.

She's walking one mile. Clearly for her to include this in her post is that it's at least on her radar screen.

Maybe it's something that she typically feels. She sees other posts by other people who are walking

five miles or more, and that can be a discouragement, maybe even a deterrent.

I gotta walk that far, I can't do that, so I'm not gonna walk at all.

One of the challenges that we face in life and certainly in fitness is the challenge of comparison comparing our situation

to others and in fitness that can be really easy to do particularly if you're part of a group

like the Start Today Facebook group, which is designed

to be encouraging and motivating for those who are members. You still see other folks who are

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