Recently I saw a post on the Start Today Facebook group that made me smile.

Not because it was so much funny, but it was that smile of, yep, been there, done that.

It was someone who, and I forget the exact language, she had a goal to reach a certain number of steps during the course of the day.

And before she got in bed, she checked her Fitbit or whatever step tracker she uses,

realized that she was a hundred steps short. And so she jogged in place right next to her bed,

just so she could meet her goal. And she posted that and of course

there were dozens of comments from people saying, yeah, I've done that too. And I've walked

around my bed. I've walked around my kitchen. I've walked in place. I've run in place.

You know, whatever the method is to get those extra steps to reach that goal.

This is the powerful thing about making a fitness promise,

that you say you're going to do something,

you make a commitment to yourself, a promise to yourself,

and then you do whatever you need to do to keep it,

including things that others might look at and go,

what? You did what? You ran in place next to your bed just to get 100 steps? Are you nuts?

And I have to say, because I've done all the things, I've done all the things to reach that goal, that commitment, that fitness promise.

And there have been moments. There have been moments as I'm doing it where I'm thinking, why am I doing this?

What's really going on here? Am I nuts?

And I also quickly recognized that that's not what's happening.

In fact, walking in place or walking around the kitchen island

or walking around the living room

actually indicates something else that is far more important and far more powerful.

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