Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent, so let's go for a walk.

Thank you for listening to this podcast. Thank you for allowing me to be part of your fitness journey,

to be your walking buddy. I am honored. I don't take that lightly. I also recognize that for some, the idea of walking

with someone is preferable to walking alone. Even if you're listening to a podcast, you would prefer to walk with someone, but you're having a hard time finding someone who wants to walk with you. And it's not about you, it's about the walking. They really are not interested in getting up and moving. They're more interested in getting up and moving.

They're more interested in, well, staying comfortable in sitting.

And so maybe that's a challenge that you're facing.

Maybe you've even got someone, someone you love,

who you would love it if they would walk with you, but

they're just not interested. Maybe there's someone that you love, that you have a concern.

And you know how powerful walking is and how much of an impact that a commitment to walking could have on this person you love.

And you're having a hard time motivating them to get up and move to walk.

They might even say, it's fine for you. I have no interest in it. Is that a situation

that you're facing? Today I want to talk about motivating someone else to walk, whether it's to

walk with you so you're not walking alone or maybe it's because walking would be good for them.

I'm going to stay right up front. I don't have a magic trick that is going to provide someone

with motivation to walk. I wish I did, but I don't. I do think that there are some things that you could try

that might be helpful, that might even be a game changer. All right? Number one, start with an

invitation. Sometimes I think we make the assumption that someone is going to say no.

Well, they're not interested.

They see me walk every day and they have yet to join me.

Well, have you invited them?

Sometimes, sometimes the key is simply invite them.

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