It's All About The Systems
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Focusing on goals alone is usually not enough to create consistent habits. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave unpacks a powerful principle in the book, "Atomic Habits" by James Clear.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to talk about one of the most profound comments, thoughts in James Clears' book, Atomic Habits. |
| 0:10.4 | Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a daily podcast providing you with a little added motivation to get out and take the walk, especially on those days when you might not be |
| 0:21.1 | feeling it. Hopefully that's not today, but if it is, our 10-minute walk starts right after this. |
| 0:30.9 | You ever have one of those days that starts cloudy or sunny and then transitions from one to the other and there's a clear |
| 0:40.3 | line in the sky. That's where the cloud cover begins or ends and that's where the |
| 0:47.1 | blue sky begins or ends. Started this day fully cloudy and as I'm walking, I can see a fairly clear line |
| 1:00.0 | where the cloud cover ends and the blue sky begins. |
| 1:06.0 | And this cloud cover is slowly, slowly rolling away. |
| 1:15.2 | At the moment, directly overhead is actually a little patch of blue overhead. |
| 1:22.8 | I was expecting to say, overhead, it's cloudy. |
| 1:29.0 | So we are transitioning from a mostly cloudy morning to, I think, what's going to be a decently |
| 1:37.6 | sunny afternoon. |
| 1:40.2 | I want to read a comment. |
| 1:42.2 | This is from someone named Kath. Kath writes, thank you for |
| 1:47.7 | inspiring me to the 90-day walk challenge. Your words were inviting and warm. I'm now at day 148 |
| 1:57.8 | and have not missed once. This experience taught me the value of building a habit and I'm grateful to you and your daily videos. |
| 2:09.6 | Kath, thank you for the warm words. Thanks for the encouragement. Appreciate that. |
| 2:14.6 | Congratulations on this fitness chain that you are building. |
| 2:21.3 | Started with 90 days, up to 148. And since this wasn't just yesterday, I'm sure you're beyond that even now. |
| 2:30.3 | And if you are brand new to the podcast, real quick, what Kath is talking about is the 90-day fitness chain tracker. |
| 2:39.9 | It's a free resource. |
| 2:41.5 | There's a link in the show notes. |
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