If you ever take these walks for granted, 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 yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013.

Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day.

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

So when I ask the question, do you take these walks for granted? I'm not talking about the podcast and the walking that you and I do together,

although I guess that's a part of it. I'm referring more specifically to just being able to walk

and using walking as exercise as part of your fitness journey.

You ever take that for granted?

If you're anything like me, the answer is probably, well, yeah.

Yeah, I do.

In fact, there might even be times where not only you take it for granted,

you might even resent it. I made this fitness

promise, and I got all this stuff going on, and the weather sucks, and do I really have to?

And on days like that, not only are you not taking it for granted, but really it's almost a resentful thing.

I've felt that.

I have felt that these commitments that I make, good commitments, worthwhile investments of time, whether it's a fitness activity or something else. It gets hard and I resent,

why did I do that? Why do I have to do this? I got an email recently from Leah and I'm going to pull this up, stop walking as I read it to you.

And okay, here it is.

Hi there.

Wow, it truly has been a wild few months since I last sent an email to you.

Back on December 30th, 2022, I was spending the day creating memories with my daughter and mother-in-law. On our way to our special destination,

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