In my free time, I got the idea to cut down—or even completely stop—my daily walks, since I’ve been trying to save time wherever I can.
“Walking is the last thing you should cut,” my wife told me when I mentioned my idea.
“No way,” she continued. “That’s what recharges you!”
And she’s not wrong. Because it’s not just about maintaining my weight—or even losing a few kilos—by walking once or sometimes twice a day. It’s not only the physical benefits I get from averaging more than 15,000 steps a day. Walking helps me in another way I didn’t expect — it helps my mind.
The Moment I Considered Quitting Walking
The idea didn’t come out of nowhere. Over the past year, I’ve been dealing with some serious challenges in my work-from-home business. With the arrival of artificial intelligence and the changes it brought to how my websites operate, I’ve been forced to tackle a major problem that’s affecting my personal finances.
As revenue declines, time becomes even more valuable. So I’ve been trying to “steal” time from anything I can—just to invest it into fixing the problem.
How Much Time Walking Really Takes (and What I’d Trade It For)
It’s not a small amount of time. You don’t just reach 10,000 steps a day without effort—or without spending time on it.
Not that I’m obsessed with counting steps, but since my watch and phone do it automatically, I like knowing the number. My routine starts early in the morning, before sunrise, when I usually walk for about 80 minutes. After that, I might go again in the evening—especially if I’ve spent the whole day sitting in front of a computer screen.
