Keeping that fitness promise you made to yourself is hard work.

In other words, right now, you are choosing to do a hard thing.

Welcome to Walking is Fitness.

This is a podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to keep that fitness

promise you made to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013,

averaging just under 21,000 steps a day. I am walking right now and would love to have you

join me for the next 10 minutes or so.

It is a beautiful spring morning in South Carolina, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

The skies are generally clear. There are some clouds, but they don't look like the, I'm going to drop a ton of rain on you

type clouds. The wind is calm, at least it is for the moment. The pattern lately has been

calm winds in the morning and then proceeding to incredibly gusty by the afternoon.

And so that may hold true again today, but right now it feels nice.

And the temperature is 61 degrees, and because the winds are calm, it actually feels like 63.

James Clear has become something of an expert on creating habits.

He wrote a book a few years ago, which has, it probably still is, in fact, which

jumped to the top of the bestseller charts and has stayed there.

The book is titled Atomic Habits.

James, I've heard him recommend, and I believe this is in the book.

I haven't read the book, but I believe this is also in the book.

He calls it the two-minute rule.

It's breaking, if there's something, a goal that you want to achieve,

breaking it down to its simplest, most basic component.

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