The habits that survive have one thing in common, and it isn't discipline: somebody else knows about them. Neil's after-dinner walk survives because it belongs to three of them: Neil, his wife Gina, and Cora the 5.9-pound Morkie who sets the pace. Skipping it doesn't feel like skipping exercise. It feels like standing up his wife.
With one week left in the challenge, this episode is about future-proofing your walk by recruiting one person into it: someone in your house, a weekly walk-and-talk phone call with a friend, or the 2,000 people already walking at roughly the same hour every evening. And for the parents: when your kids see the family walk happen every night, you're not exercising. You're installing a default they'll carry for decades.
In this episode:
- Why another human beats motivation for keeping habits alive
- Three ways to recruit a walking partner, including the no-pants phone call option
- The family walk as the longest game in diabetes parenting
- Making the anchor habit survive winter by making it not just yours
Your challenge: recruit ONE person into ONE movement habit. Ask them tonight. Worst case they say no and you walk anyway.
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