Today's 10 minute walk is helping you create a walking habit you will love.

Hi, I'm Dave. I want to tell you something that happened recently when I was out for a walk.

It was a longer walk probably about three miles.

It was a nice morning.

And I was probably about two miles into the walk.

And I wanted to check the time.

So I flicked my wrist to check my step tracker and noticed that I wasn't wearing it. I had taken it off

earlier that morning and forgot to put it back on before I went out for the walk. And in that

moment when I realized that I wasn't wearing my step tracker, I had this emotion this feeling these weren't

necessarily the words that bounced through my brain but this is what I was

thinking and maybe you've experienced that you don't have the words but you

understand the thought and the words, but you understand the thought.

And the thought was this.

Oh, this walk doesn't count.

Again, those weren't the words that went through my brain.

It was a feeling.

And if you've been walking for a while and you have a step tracker and there's been an occasion where you have forgotten to wear it or maybe the battery ran out and you weren't aware of that.

And when you realize, oh, no step tracker, maybe you've had a similar, a similar thought, oh, this walk doesn't count.

These steps don't count.

And then of course, as soon as I had that thought, my brain kicked in and I responded to myself,

well, of course this walk counts.

This walk has every benefit that it would have had had I been

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