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Walking is Fitness

Why Did I Make This Promise?

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8592 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

It was a leather chair that motivated that question. Dave explains why during today's ten-minute walk.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Have you ever had a conversation similar to this with yourself?

0:11.0

Welcome to walking as fitness. This is a podcast of action, providing a little extra motivation

0:16.5

to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself. Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in 2013.

0:23.6

Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day.

0:27.6

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

0:33.6

Maybe 10 years ago, I moved from one office to another when I was still living in Maryland, still working at the radio station.

0:44.8

My boss moved his office to another part of the building, and he gave me his old office.

0:53.1

And I inherited the furniture that was already in the office,

0:56.2

including this really, really nice leather chair.

1:03.4

I had no idea that you could fall in love with a chair like I fell in love with that chair.

1:09.0

I would get off the air at 9 a.m. and begin the rest of my

1:13.9

workday, which primarily happened in my office, and I would go into my office, and I would not sit

1:20.2

in the chair behind my desk. I would sit in this leather chair on the other side of the desk

1:26.5

and do my work from there. I would sit in this leather chair on the other side of the desk and do my work from there. I almost, almost resented it when I

1:33.8

had meetings with someone and I had to get behind my desk and they got to sit my leather chair.

1:40.2

I fell in love with that chair, so much so that when we moved to South Carolina and I set up my home office, I said to Ava,

1:49.2

I need to get a chair like the one I had in Maryland, in my office at the radio station.

1:55.0

Anyhow, I was sitting in this chair on a recent Sunday afternoon. And it was cloudy.

2:01.7

It was windy.

2:04.8

And the temperature was lower than it should have been.

2:09.4

And I'm looking out the window

2:10.8

and I am enjoying this comfortable chair.

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