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

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk. As we begin 2025, I've been talking about some themes and thoughts

that I read in the book Atomic Habits. It's a mega bestseller written by James Clear. It's not a brand new book. It was published in 2018

sold more than 20 million copies and who knows how many people have been impacted whose lives have been changed by this book.

Because habits can be life changing. Good habits can change your life for the

better, bad habits, of course, can be life-damaging. And this book Atomic Habits has helped people

build good habits and also help them dismantle bad habits. And one of the reasons this podcast exists is to help you build a habit of walking

every day or at least consistently. And in the show notes for this episode, in fact, in the

show notes for every episode, there is a link to a free resource that

I'd love for you to have 90 days to a fitness habit that lasts part of that free resource

is what I call the 90 day fitness chain tracker and one of the themes that James talks about in atomic habits is the value of tracking the

habit. And he actually gives a couple of examples. Benjamin Franklin was someone who tracked his

habits, wrote down every day these habits that he was working on.

How did he do with these particular habits? And let's see, some of the habits were,

lose no time, always be employed in something useful. Another one of Benjamin Franklin's habits,

avoid trifling conversation. I'm sure his journals exist. I've

never read them, but that probably would be really entertaining. Today, I avoided a trifling

conversation with James Madison.

James Clear also talks about Jerry Seinfeld.

And I have heard this story separately.

Outside of the book Atomic Habits, in fact,

this story was the motivation for creating

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