Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself and adds another link to your growing fitness chain.

As I left the house this morning, I was greeted by a beautiful sunrise, one that I wasn't expecting, and I'm not entirely sure why maybe I just

wasn't thinking about what time it was and when the sunrise would be happening

as I walked out the front door was like okay got the early daylight and I had

been walking for just a couple of minutes and then I turned the corner and was like oh my gosh look at the sunrise

it was stunning just stunning habits are really hard to build particularly if you're just

getting started with fitness creating a new habit is one of the hardest parts of beginning a fitness journey.

Habits take a lot longer to build than I think most of us realize.

There's actually some research that indicates it's on average 66 days to build a new

habit.

And if like me, you've kind of locked into for years,

decades even, that it takes 30 days, 30 days to build a habit. And we get 30 days in. Actually,

I think I've even heard that it's 21 days, you know, like three weeks. And so you get into that 21 to 30 day zone,

and you're trying to build this habit,

and it's still like not a habit yet,

and you're wondering, is there something wrong with me?

And the answer is no, you're probably just like everybody else.

66 days.

66 days to build a habit.

And for some, it takes longer than that.

Others can do it in less time, but that's the average.

And the other component about building a habit that we probably don't think about is what I call

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