Then I started walking.
Not to create a method.
Not with a three-year plan.
I simply wanted to start moving again.
So I walked.
Then I did it again.
And I kept going.
Little by little, I stopped seeing only what I still could not do.
I also began to see what I was already succeeding at.
I was proud. I felt more capable. And I began to want to go further.
My starting point did not become my destination.
Today, at almost 50, I still walk and I work out at the gym four times a week.
I like becoming strong.
But the important part is not the gym.
The important part is that I probably never would have started there.
There was a path between the woman who was starting to walk again and the woman who would one day enjoy training.
I wanted to understand that path.
Why was this time different?
Why had I kept going when I had stopped before?
I am an investigator by profession, so I turned to research on behavior change and physical activity.
I found research on successful experiences, self-efficacy, planning, repetition, and maintaining physical activity.
My personal story is not scientific proof.
It gave me a question.
Research helped me better understand what might explain my experience.
Début grew from there.
I do not want you to copy my path.
You do not have to walk as much as I did.
You do not have to go to the gym.
You do not have to want the same destination.
What I hope is that you find your starting point, then discover what it can become.
I knew where I was beginning. I did not yet know what I would become capable of doing.