If your goal doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.

Have you ever heard that?

Have you ever said that to yourself?

Let's talk about it.

Welcome to walking as 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.

On May 25, 1961, President John Kennedy addressed Congress.

I don't know what the speech was about in total,

but there was one part of the speech that became world famous

and is still pointed to more than six decades later as an example, even as inspiration for setting really big goals.

President said, I don't know if I've got this word for word, but he set as a national goal before the decade was over of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

When he declared that as a national goal, only one American astronaut had been in space,

and that was a few weeks prior, and for all of 15 minutes, didn't even go around the earth,

just kind of shot up, and then came down in the ocean.

The country was very excited, and the president capitalized on that excitement,

supersized the whole effort by declaring, hey, let's go to the moon.

One of the things I love, I mean, there was so much that they didn't know, so much that they had

no idea how they were going to do this.

There was not a plan.

They didn't even know if they could land on the moon because nothing had ever been there.

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