Today's 10-minute walk is helping both of us remain fitness consistent.

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's take a walk.

Mike left a comment to one of the Walking His Fitness YouTube videos.

And I want to read this to you. I'm actually going to stop walking for a moment because I'm

walking on a road. There's no sidewalk here and you can tell there's traffic. And so I just want to

step off the road. I want to read this. Again, this is from Mike. When I decided to commit to a daily

walking habit starting in January 2020,

my initial goal was a mile a day for a month. Then I added a little more distance every month.

I didn't care so much about steps, but distance. I didn't care about speed. I only cared about

the commitment to the daily goal. I walked in rain and cold and the brutal heat and humidity of the Texas Gulf Coast in summer.

I missed a few days since 2022 due to weather and a few days for traveling or for business. But I have maybe missed 30 days of committed walking

over the last three years. If I miss a day, I feel like I'm off my schedule for the whole day.

Since finding Dave's YouTube channel and podcast, my motivation has moved to the next level. In 2024, I reached

over 2,000 miles, averaging out to about 10,000 steps a day for 365 days. Oh yeah, and I went from

225 pounds to 160 pounds in less than two years when I started my commitment to walking

daily. Love this. Mike, thanks for sharing your story. I want to pull out some some takeaways

from Mike's story. And I've got eight here and I'm walking once again

Mike started small with a mile a day which is about 20 minutes of walking a day and for some

that actually is too big so I don't want to say that anything less than 20 minutes is smaller than small.

Really small depends on what you have the time to do, what you have the capacity to do.

For some, starting small might be simply walking to the end of the driveway and back, doing that every day.

So start small.

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