Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening,
everybody. Welcome to today's episode of the
Never Peak Project Podcast. I'm your host, Coach
Ranger, the guy who walked across America, but
now helps entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, and
outgoing individuals reach their next peak in
life without feeling burnt out, overwhelmed,
or succumbing to their sabotaging voice. In today's
episode, I'm going to be going over a very simple
question that people ask each other all the time,
but for... me, it's kind of taken on a new meaning.
And that question is, is it walking distance?
I'll be pulling in some examples from my walk
across America in twenty twenty four, some lessons
that I've learned and how you can apply this
methodology to your own life. Going into that
right now. So a very common phrase that I have
been asked throughout my life or three walk during
the walk post walk is. Is it walking distance?
Now, this can mean anything from, is your apartment
walking distance from downtown? Is the parking
lot walking distance to this event? Et cetera,
et cetera. And for different people, what I've
noticed is everybody has their own definition
of what is considered walking distance. For some
people, it's no more than a four or five minute
walk. For others, it's 20 to 30. And something
interesting that I've heard is for some people,
the idea of walking distance is if it's less
than a mile, they'll just walk. But if it's more
than that, they'll drive, which is interesting
because kind of no matter which way you spin
it, driving is going to be a lot faster than
walking. But what I really want to hone in on
this is. After the walk, immediately after I
was out with some friends and we were just kind
of hanging out in Sacramento, I believe. and
one of them asked, oh, like, is the hotel walking
distance to downtown? But they were asking me
specifically because we were in Davis, Sacramento
area, and I knew a little bit more about the
area than they did. And they asked me and they
said, well, maybe Ranger's not the best person
to answer this. And I just thought that that
was kind of interesting because I didn't think
it was walking distance, but they thought that
I would have a skewed perception of that based
off of, of course, walking 2 ,642 miles across
America. And I guess what I really learned in
that moment was these concepts, like there's
a lot that has to go into the idea of something
as simple as something being walking distance.
And I think the major one, the major two, I guess,
are time and effort. When it comes to my walk
across the country, something being walking distance
was so outrageously huge that it was hard to
comprehend, right? Like, I knew that this was
going to take a lot of time and a lot of effort.
But because of the way that I had structured
my life, you know, I quit my job, I put a lot
of things on the side burner for that journey,
it made it to where the time and effort I was
putting into it was possible. Whereas... The
smaller example of being able to walk from our
hotel to downtown Davis like I Didn't think it
was walking distance because the amount of time
it would take to get downtown Was gonna be over
an hour when we wanted to go and hang out and
do things and the effort of The six of us like
coming from here going all the way over there
and back and forth, etc, etc It just didn't make
sense. What I'm really trying to get at here
with this particular idea or lesson that I learned
on the walk is when you ask like these platitude
questions of, you know, is it walking distance?
Is it possible? Is this thing achievable? I think
there's a lot more that goes into it than just
are you physically capable or mentally capable
of doing this thing? Like, is this business idea
possible? Is this relationship feasible? It's
like, yes, I personally do feel that anything
is possible. Anything is feasible. But it's not
just stopping at this basic idea of a belief
or an idea. There's so much more that goes into
it. And really, those two main factors are the
time and effort you're willing to put into the
thing. How do you apply this to your life? Why
am I even saying all of this? I have met a lot
of people in my coaching workshops, et cetera,
that have certain beliefs around what is capable
or possible for them. One of the things that
is so top of mind for me right now is the last
podcasting workshop that I did over here in Half
Moon Bay. I gave away a few coaching and consulting
calls to people that were a part of the meeting.
And one of those calls One of the gals, she told
me her idea. She told me why she wanted to do
it. And then she asked me, is this podcast possible?
And I was kind of taken aback because her podcast
was a lot about menopause for business consultants
and how you kind of deal with that. And of course,
I have no idea what it's like to go through menopause,
much less be a woman consultant or coach. From
there, the questions changed from, is this possible?
Sure, it's possible, but it's, what are you willing
to do about it? What are you willing to put yourself
out there for? Do you have the time to make it
possible? Do you have the effort? Why is it even
something that you want to do to begin with?
And these are all questions that I kind of started
with when I began my planning to walk across
the country. One of the very first things that
I Googled was, Is it possible to walk across
the United States of America? And of course,
everything said, yes, it's possible. It is a
possible thing. People have done it. People are
constantly doing it. People are currently doing
it. But there's more to it than just, is it possible?
Same thing with running a marathon, right? Like
I believe that anybody listening to this can
do a marathon. But in how much time and effort
are you going to put into it? like when I you
know what last year I think technically I did
25 or 26 marathons during my walk and those are
just days I did over 26 miles in a in a single
um in a single day I didn't think it was possible
for me to do a marathon before then but when
you have enough time and your effort matches
that time it is possible now one of the things
I'm doing is working on reducing the amount of
time it takes to do a marathon from you know
12 hours to hopefully five or six or down even
lower by running and improving my cardio. But
to really get back to the core of what I want
to be the main takeaway for this is instead of
asking if something is possible, instead of asking
if something is walking distance, ask yourself,
what am I going to commit to doing? Will I put
in the time? Will I put in the effort? Do I have
the skills? to do what it is that I want to do,
and if not, am I willing to gain those skills?
Like, when I first started the walk a few days
before I got on the plane to go to South Carolina,
Andrew Kivett, one of my walking mentors, sent
me his book, Keep Going. And in the book, it
said, you know, the most difficult step is step
one. And he wrote this out for me. He said, all
you need to do is take that first step. and then
take five and a half million more. You take the
first step and then do five and a half million
more. And that's just the work it takes. There's
not a whole lot of other story to put into that.
It's possible to walk across the country. South
Carolina and California are walking distance
if you are willing to put in the time or effort.
And I guess really what I wanna leave with you
today is, What are you willing to put in the
time and effort to make possible in your life?
Is it studying for the SATs? Is it going to college
for four to 12 years to be a veterinarian in
the medical field? What are you willing to do
to get the outcome that you want? Anything is
achievable. Anything is within range. if you're
willing to do the work. If you would like to
learn more or figure out what that next step
is or what the work you need to do is in between
step one and the final step, please feel free
to shoot me an email or just sign straight up
for a free 15 minute call. I'd love to get on
the phone with you and talk a little bit about
what your next step are and how I can best support
you as a coach, mentor and friend to get you
from one side or the other. Thank you so much
for listening today as always remember that the
best is yet to come as long as you are willing
to make the decision Every single day to never
settle never quit and never peak. I'll see you
guys in the next episode