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Jan 4, 2023Liked by Tom Watson

Aww 🥰 sending love and strength to you for giving your best to your mum and step father at this time. 💕

We need to embrace our failures with love and thank ourselves for recognising them for what they are: cracks that let the light in. Thank you for reminding me.

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Tom, that worked for me. Just being outside the house kitted for a walk but intending just stay in the garden til I could hear and see and feel. Birds rain wind mud wind-chimes trees. Then I wanted to stay on my feet outside and walked 33 minutes, 12 briskly, nearly 4000 steps. To the co- op. Some days it’s been about 8 steps all day. Ha! Here’s to failing🍾

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The “10,000 steps” target was a random marketing tool target, by a Japanese pedometer manufacturer which had no science to back it up. It sounds good. You “only” need to walk 7,500 steps per day to achieve the alleged benefits of 10,000 steps. Above 7,500 steps, the health benefits plateau. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190723-10000-steps-a-day-the-right-amount

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Really nice, honest post

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We fail when we try to do something that is beyond our normal abilities, and this is what we do when we try to improve at anything in life. If you aren't failing sometimes you aren't really trying.

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Tom, I’ve been failing my steps target for years now. I just now realised it could be the wrong 🎯 I’m going to put on my wet weather gear right now and walk round the garden noticing what’s there with every sense. I’m not going to count my steps.

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