Small steps can become surprisingly big numbers
A 1.6km walk does not sound dramatic. That’s exactly why I like it.
For me, the value of a daily walk is not that one outing changes everything. It is that it is small enough to repeat.
When I walk Teddy, I’m not trying to create one extraordinary day. I’m trying to do something ordinary often enough that it becomes part of my life.
At 1.6km a day, that adds up to around 584km across a year. I love that number because it makes the compound effect visible. The individual walk still matters, but the real story is the repetition.
The same idea applies beyond walking. One decent meal will not change everything. One early night will not fix months of tiredness. One chapter will not make you an expert. But small actions are easier to repeat, and repeatable actions have a chance to become habits.
I think there can be a temptation to believe change needs a complete overhaul. I’m much more interested in the thing you can actually do again tomorrow.
Maybe that’s a short walk. Maybe it’s drinking a glass of water before your next coffee. Maybe it’s reading ten pages or getting outside for five minutes.
Small doesn’t mean pointless. Small can mean possible.
That same idea is behind habit stacking, and it is also why I keep asking what your future self will thank me for.
And possible is a very good place to start.
Fancy getting out of your own head for a bit?
Sometimes the easiest way to start is simply to have somewhere to go. Come and join Linnie for a walk.