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

Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk.

In 2024, I read James Clears' mega best-selling book, Atomic Habits.

It was published in 2018. It has sold more than 20 million copies. Good habits can change our life's trajectory. Bad habits can be life damaging.

And the book Atomic Habits is helping people establish good habits and stop bad habits. So I read the book in 2024, took lots of notes, thinking about the beginning of 2025.

Are there some thoughts and themes in the book that I could talk about as people are listening and walking

and creating a brand new fitness habit that hopefully will last through all of 2025.

One of the big themes is what James Clear calls the two-minute rule.

It's all about when you get started,

when you get started creating a habit,

not to start too big, but to start really small.

In fact, the activities need to take two minutes or less. And he gives some examples.

So if you have a goal in 2025 to read more consistently, and maybe it's a specific goal of read before

bed each night, applying James Clear's two-minute rule, he says, read it's a specific goal of read before bed each night applying james clear's two-minute rule he says read before bed each night becomes read one page do 30 minutes of yoga becomes take out my yoga mat study for class becomes open my notes. Fold the laundry becomes fold one pair of socks.

Run three miles becomes tie my running shoes. One of the themes that I have talked about a lot on this podcast.

And even before the podcast in the blog that I wrote,

which actually started right around the time that Atomic Habits was published.

And I had not read it, but I clearly am thinking along the same lines as James Clear and that is when you are

creating a new fitness habit it's important to start small and think long and that's one of the

reasons why this is a 10 minute podcast because as you're getting started building a new fitness habit

it's much better to start with a small walk a short walk than it is to say I'm

gonna get 10,000 steps a day because even though that may be exciting at the very beginning of this new habit formation journey

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