Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep your fitness promise, which adds another link to your growing fitness chain.

It is going to be... I thought it was going to be a lonely, quiet walk, and now I'm hearing some birds as they are

waking up. I've got early daylight off to the east. It is a beautiful sunrise, and I think this is when

the birds start waking up. It's a nice sound. This podcast is probably more about motivation than it is about the physical act of walking.

The hardest part, in my opinion, the hardest part of pursuing fitness, of making exercise

an intentional, consistent, regular part of your day is the motivation, is staying motivated, is finding motivation when it's not there.

I had yesterday, I was after my walk, I was getting ready to begin my work day and was on the back porch and thinking through the things that I needed to do and was feeling very unmotivated.

And that's terrible. You know, I'm sitting there listing all these things that I

needed to get done yesterday. And I had almost no motivation to get up and do any of it.

I mean, that's hard. Now, gratefully, for me, at least, those things that I had to do,

I had to do, whether I felt motivated or not really was inconsequential. There were some meetings

that I needed to attend, some decisions that needed to be made, some scripts that needed to be written, and they needed to be done.

So whether I felt motivated or not was not the point.

But with fitness, because no one is making you do this, no one is making me do this.

It comes from a place inside, internal, that motivation is more critical.

And so when you get up and you've got a fitness promise and you don't feel motivated, it's hard.

And so I think a lot of this podcast is really about motivation.

How to find the motivation.

How to stay motivated.

What do you do when you don't feel the motivation?

That's the value of the fitness promise.

You make a promise, a commitment to walk every day,

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