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

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's take a walk. What you are doing is hard. I don't mean this particular

walk, if you are listening as you're walking, individual walks for the most part, for most

of us, they're not hard.

Creating the habit though, that is the hard part.

I am convinced that when it comes to fitness, when it comes to exercise, the hardest part isn't

the physical activity itself, it's the mind games. It's the mental aspect of fitness, of exercise.

Last year I read the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. This book was published in 2018.

I sold more than 20 million copies. It's probably this week at the top of the bestseller lists yet again.

James has helped so many people create life-changing habits.

Well, I read the book last year and I took a lot of notes, wrote down thoughts that he had in the book, wrote down themes that he

had in the book with the idea that as we begin 2025, I wanted to talk about some of these thoughts

and some of these themes that are found in the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. Make hard habits

more attractive by shifting how you think of them.

Instead of saying, I have to, say, I get to. Oftentimes when we are trying to create a new habit,

it's usually a habit that is going to be good force. Maybe it's a habit of exercise,

a habit of eating better, a habit of reading more, a habit of sleeping longer, a habit of

drinking more water. These habits, while they come with tremendous benefits, one of the things that you'll

hear me talk about, if you're a new listener, and you continue listening to this podcast, one of the

things that you'll hear me circle back to often are the benefits of walking, of walking consistently,

and they are tremendous. But the reality is just

knowing those benefits, just understanding the changes that can happen. By the way, I'm not a doctor.

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