Today's 10-minute walk is helping you create a walking habit you will love. Hi, I'm Dave.

Cheryl says, well, I really did need to start trying to walk, even if in the beginning it's only for

five minutes. I found out the first day that I can barely

keep walking for five minutes and that's taking only baby steps. That surprised the heck out of me.

I didn't realize I was that out of shape. So yeah, right now in the beginning, it's a real struggle. But I think

with time, things will start getting better, though. Fitness is hard. Getting started

is hard. Staying consistent is hard.

And I think a lot of times my focus in this podcast is on the staying consistent part.

Mentioning that starting is hard but staying consistent, I think is even harder to keep going.

You can get a couple of days in, you've got that excitement, and, you know,

what about day three, day seven, day 12? That's really hard.

But sometimes the getting started part feels like a mountain. And in Cheryl's case,

she's climbing a mountain. Five minutes a day and that five minutes is really hard, harder

than she expected. So I want to talk about some things. If you're

experiencing this, if you have recently discovered the podcast, and you are in the process of

not creating the habit, but just thinking about it, you've been listening, maybe this is the

first episode you listen to. And you understand that there's great value, great benefit in walking, getting moving, moving more exercise,

and you've got some motivation to do this thing, but the getting started part feels like a mountain.

And you can relate to what Cheryl is saying here.

Number one, most things are hard at the beginning.

And I would even contend that most things that we want to do that bring value to our lives, they're harder than we

expect.

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