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

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk. One of the themes, if you've been listening to this podcast

for any length of time, one of the recurring themes is how walking is an investment in your health. It's an investment in your future health.

It's an investment in how you feel today. So even when we don't feel like taking the walk,

and that certainly happens, no matter how much fun you find in walking as an

activity there are still going to be days for a variety of reasons where we just don't feel

like it and knowing that taking the walk is an investment in your health can be a little extra motivation to get out the door and to keep that commitment.

Today I want to talk about walking as a different kind of investment.

So not necessarily health related, but how walking can be an investment in relationships that matter to you.

Again, if you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you've probably heard me talk about

the walks that Ava and I take every day. Ava's my wife. We've been married now for 40 years coming up on

41. And walking together is something that we've consistently been doing for a while now, certainly

since we moved from Maryland down to Myrtle Beach these walks have

been almost daily and sometimes to maybe even three walks a day but it's something

that we began doing even before we moved to Myrtle Beach. When we lived in Maryland, we were consistently

walking. It wasn't an everyday thing, but it was a consistently enough thing. And before we started

doing it as a consistent activity, when we would go away either on vacation to the Outer Banks in North Carolina,

we would take weekend trips to Williamsburg, Virginia, walking with something, walking together

was something that we looked forward to doing while we were away. So it's actually something that we've enjoyed for our, I guess,

the entirety of our married life together. We talk about what's happening today. How's your day going? What's the good? What's the bad? What

you still want to do today? What have you accomplished today? How are you feeling today?

And that could be both physically and emotionally. Walking is probably when we most often talk about the things that are concerning to us

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