Are you starting to feel a little discouraged? Welcome to walking as fitness. This is a podcast

of action providing a little bit of extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made

to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013 and still take an intentional fitness walk every

single day. I'm walking right now and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes.

Fitness is hard. And if you began on January 1st with a goal, perhaps even a promise that you made

yourself to walk every single day or to walk

consistently, you've now reached that part where things get hard and even discouraging. At the

beginning, you know, for the first week or so, it's a lot of fun, there's a lot of excitement,

a lot of motivation to get out, maybe even to walk longer than you thought you were going to walk.

But of course, that emotional, motivational fuel rarely lasts.

My experience is it never lasts.

And then you reach this heart of the journey, which is the messy middle, where it doesn't

really feel like anything's happening.

Made this commitment, I'm exercising, I'm walking every day, but it doesn't really feel like

anything is changing.

Motivation is one of the most challenging aspects of anything we pursue.

To stay motivated, to keep moving forward, whether it's exercise, whether you're changing your nutrition,

whether you're trying to create a good habit or eliminate a bad habit,

whether you've got some sort of project in life,

staying motivated is really hard. The greatest source of motivation is progress. When you're doing

something hard, you want to know that the juice is worth the squeeze.

So right now, this consistent daily walk, maybe the weather has been such that it's been challenging,

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