Claire writes: “Happy New Year!  Goals. Resolutions. Some people love them and some hate them. I’m not a fan. But I do like the Chinese Proverb that says that a journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step.

Nicky encouraged me to get a FitBit about 2 years ago to see if it would encourage me to walk 10000 steps a day.  The first few months were tough because for many and various reasons I had not moved much.  2015 I managed it most days. The better it made me feel, the more I wanted to do it.  Slowly I moved from driving being normal to walking being normal, and invested in better shoes and a very long waterproof warm coat so no excuses!

Looking back at my FitBit statistics, I’m interested to see that I walked 2036 miles in 2016. If I had planned to do that, I’m pretty sure I’d have given up.  Those 2036 miles came from getting up each day and deciding – on that day – to walk as much as possible – whatever that meant. It’s not my goal to better that in 2017 although I imagine I might – because now I want to walk! ‘Begin with a single step’ was exactly what was needed.’

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