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Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening,

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everybody. Welcome to today's episode of the

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Never Peak Project Podcast. I'm your host, Coach

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Ranger, the guy who walked across America, but

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now helps entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, and

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outgoing individuals reach their next peak in

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life without feeling burnt out, overwhelmed,

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or succumbing to their sabotaging voice. In today's

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episode, I'm going to be going over a very simple

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question that people ask each other all the time,

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but for... me, it's kind of taken on a new meaning.

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And that question is, is it walking distance?

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I'll be pulling in some examples from my walk

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across America in twenty twenty four, some lessons

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that I've learned and how you can apply this

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methodology to your own life. Going into that

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right now. So a very common phrase that I have

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been asked throughout my life or three walk during

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the walk post walk is. Is it walking distance?

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Now, this can mean anything from, is your apartment

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walking distance from downtown? Is the parking

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lot walking distance to this event? Et cetera,

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et cetera. And for different people, what I've

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noticed is everybody has their own definition

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of what is considered walking distance. For some

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people, it's no more than a four or five minute

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walk. For others, it's 20 to 30. And something

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interesting that I've heard is for some people,

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the idea of walking distance is if it's less

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than a mile, they'll just walk. But if it's more

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than that, they'll drive, which is interesting

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because kind of no matter which way you spin

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it, driving is going to be a lot faster than

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walking. But what I really want to hone in on

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this is. After the walk, immediately after I

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was out with some friends and we were just kind

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of hanging out in Sacramento, I believe. and

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one of them asked, oh, like, is the hotel walking

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distance to downtown? But they were asking me

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specifically because we were in Davis, Sacramento

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area, and I knew a little bit more about the

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area than they did. And they asked me and they

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said, well, maybe Ranger's not the best person

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to answer this. And I just thought that that

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was kind of interesting because I didn't think

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it was walking distance, but they thought that

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I would have a skewed perception of that based

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off of, of course, walking 2 ,642 miles across

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America. And I guess what I really learned in

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that moment was these concepts, like there's

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a lot that has to go into the idea of something

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as simple as something being walking distance.

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And I think the major one, the major two, I guess,

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are time and effort. When it comes to my walk

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across the country, something being walking distance

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was so outrageously huge that it was hard to

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comprehend, right? Like, I knew that this was

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going to take a lot of time and a lot of effort.

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But because of the way that I had structured

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my life, you know, I quit my job, I put a lot

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of things on the side burner for that journey,

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it made it to where the time and effort I was

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putting into it was possible. Whereas... The

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smaller example of being able to walk from our

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hotel to downtown Davis like I Didn't think it

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was walking distance because the amount of time

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it would take to get downtown Was gonna be over

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an hour when we wanted to go and hang out and

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do things and the effort of The six of us like

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coming from here going all the way over there

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and back and forth, etc, etc It just didn't make

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sense. What I'm really trying to get at here

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with this particular idea or lesson that I learned

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on the walk is when you ask like these platitude

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questions of, you know, is it walking distance?

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Is it possible? Is this thing achievable? I think

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there's a lot more that goes into it than just

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are you physically capable or mentally capable

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of doing this thing? Like, is this business idea

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possible? Is this relationship feasible? It's

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like, yes, I personally do feel that anything

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is possible. Anything is feasible. But it's not

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just stopping at this basic idea of a belief

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or an idea. There's so much more that goes into

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it. And really, those two main factors are the

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time and effort you're willing to put into the

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thing. How do you apply this to your life? Why

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am I even saying all of this? I have met a lot

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of people in my coaching workshops, et cetera,

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that have certain beliefs around what is capable

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or possible for them. One of the things that

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is so top of mind for me right now is the last

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podcasting workshop that I did over here in Half

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Moon Bay. I gave away a few coaching and consulting

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calls to people that were a part of the meeting.

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And one of those calls One of the gals, she told

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me her idea. She told me why she wanted to do

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it. And then she asked me, is this podcast possible?

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And I was kind of taken aback because her podcast

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was a lot about menopause for business consultants

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and how you kind of deal with that. And of course,

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I have no idea what it's like to go through menopause,

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much less be a woman consultant or coach. From

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there, the questions changed from, is this possible?

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Sure, it's possible, but it's, what are you willing

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to do about it? What are you willing to put yourself

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out there for? Do you have the time to make it

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possible? Do you have the effort? Why is it even

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something that you want to do to begin with?

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And these are all questions that I kind of started

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with when I began my planning to walk across

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the country. One of the very first things that

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I Googled was, Is it possible to walk across

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the United States of America? And of course,

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everything said, yes, it's possible. It is a

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possible thing. People have done it. People are

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constantly doing it. People are currently doing

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it. But there's more to it than just, is it possible?

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Same thing with running a marathon, right? Like

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I believe that anybody listening to this can

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do a marathon. But in how much time and effort

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are you going to put into it? like when I you

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know what last year I think technically I did

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25 or 26 marathons during my walk and those are

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just days I did over 26 miles in a in a single

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um in a single day I didn't think it was possible

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for me to do a marathon before then but when

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you have enough time and your effort matches

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that time it is possible now one of the things

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I'm doing is working on reducing the amount of

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time it takes to do a marathon from you know

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12 hours to hopefully five or six or down even

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lower by running and improving my cardio. But

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to really get back to the core of what I want

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to be the main takeaway for this is instead of

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asking if something is possible, instead of asking

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if something is walking distance, ask yourself,

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what am I going to commit to doing? Will I put

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in the time? Will I put in the effort? Do I have

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the skills? to do what it is that I want to do,

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and if not, am I willing to gain those skills?

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Like, when I first started the walk a few days

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before I got on the plane to go to South Carolina,

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Andrew Kivett, one of my walking mentors, sent

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me his book, Keep Going. And in the book, it

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said, you know, the most difficult step is step

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one. And he wrote this out for me. He said, all

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you need to do is take that first step. and then

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take five and a half million more. You take the

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first step and then do five and a half million

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more. And that's just the work it takes. There's

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not a whole lot of other story to put into that.

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It's possible to walk across the country. South

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Carolina and California are walking distance

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if you are willing to put in the time or effort.

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And I guess really what I wanna leave with you

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today is, What are you willing to put in the

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time and effort to make possible in your life?

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Is it studying for the SATs? Is it going to college

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for four to 12 years to be a veterinarian in

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the medical field? What are you willing to do

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to get the outcome that you want? Anything is

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achievable. Anything is within range. if you're

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willing to do the work. If you would like to

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learn more or figure out what that next step

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is or what the work you need to do is in between

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step one and the final step, please feel free

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to shoot me an email or just sign straight up

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for a free 15 minute call. I'd love to get on

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the phone with you and talk a little bit about

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what your next step are and how I can best support

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you as a coach, mentor and friend to get you

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from one side or the other. Thank you so much

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for listening today as always remember that the

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best is yet to come as long as you are willing

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to make the decision Every single day to never

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settle never quit and never peak. I'll see you

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guys in the next episode