When do you usually quit?

Welcome to walking as fitness. This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I've been walking for fitness since 2013, averaging about 21,000 steps a day. I'm walking

right now, and I would love to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. It is a chilly morning in

South Carolina, and again, it is a little on the breezy side. I don't think a meteorologist would

use the term wind chill today, but for the second straight day,

I've got my ski cap on, and it's a word that's bouncing around inside my brain.

Hope the weather where you are today is enjoyable as we walk together.

Nancy recently posted in the Start Today Facebook group, Day 10,

when I do this on my own, this is about when I usually quit. And that got me thinking about,

when is it that I usually quit? And so I pulled out some old calendar books from 10 years ago and looked at the goals that I had said at the beginning of the year, the New Year's resolutions, the New Year's goals to see how long I stayed with those goals.

I had a whole page full of them.

And there was...

I had totally forgotten about this one. There was one year,

this was 2012. One of my themes for the year was to learn something new, to try something new.

And I actually had three or four things that I was going to try. And the one that I remembered specifically was,

learn to play the violin.

When I was in elementary school,

the very first instrument that I learned to play,

I think we were required to take music.

And so I chose the viola.

Did that for a year or two, and a viola is very closely related to a violin.

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