Nov. 9, 2024

867. Walk The Dog | A quick way to be more productive.

867. Walk The Dog | A quick way to be more productive.
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Whether it's fitness, creatives, or personal development, many people don't get started because they feel it's a huge time commitment. 

Try a technique that I call "walk the dog."

I walk my dogs because it is beneficial and doesn't take long. What if I did the same thing in other areas of my life?

In this episode, I'll give you a few examples. At the end, send me a text message or tag me on your socials with other ways that you can "walk the dog." 

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Keep it simple. Keep it moving. Never settle. Stay tough. 

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All right.

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3, 2, 1.

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Let's get it.

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Welcome back to what's your problem?

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The podcast.

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I'm your host Marsh Buice.

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And today I want to help you become more productive.

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In a shorter amount of time.

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Some people don't like the word hacks.

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So I won't use the word hack, but I think we would all agree that it just seems to not be enough time in the day to get more done.

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This is November when I'm recording this.

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And so we're going to end another year and you're as you're skidding into the end of the year.

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How do you feel about it?

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Do you feel like that you're more productive?

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Do you feel like you've kind of slipped a little bit?

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Is it just another year and you just feel like you're a hamster on a wheel.

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Well, I'm going to help you with that.

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And it's not a huge time commitment.

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That's the biggest thing you have to remember as we get started here consistency over intensity.

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And a lot of times when we start something, we start with intensity first.

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Yet we cannot maintain the consistency.

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So if you put consistency over intensity, It may start a little slow for you.

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It may not seem like it's adding up much, but see, everything in life compounds good or bad.

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So as you feed into it, Then that thing feeds upon itself.

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And in the moment doesn't seem like much, but over time, it's monumental.

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So, let me give you a technique that I call walk the dog.

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I love the symbolic nature of just the term walk the dog.

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Because in the mornings, when I wake up the very first thing after I take a leak.

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The dogs know I'm up.

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And they're ready to go walk they are just conditioned to go walking.

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So that's the first thing we do in the mornings.

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I put the harness on him.

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And then I go walk the dogs and it's normally about 15 minutes.

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And the same in the evening.

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When I get home in the evening, they're standing by the door.

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They're ready.

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And so we do the same thing.

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Walking the dog.

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Is a non-negotiable for me.

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It's a non-negotiable for them.

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They just have been conditioned.

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With that expectation.

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So it got me to thinking.

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That I never skip walking the dogs.

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I mean, it could be pouring down rain.

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We'll figure out a way to get out there.

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It may mean that we have to wait another 10 minutes or so, just to see when it's going to.

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Push through.

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There are times we've gone out there in the rain.

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We get it in.

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And so my question to you.

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Is what if you took this same approach?

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Toward your creative.

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Professional.

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Or personal endeavors, there are things that you want to do.

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Yet a lot of times you don't start those things because what, it seems like a huge time commitment.

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I just don't have time.

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It says everyone.

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And we have this image in our mind that one day.

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The skies are gonna open up for us and we're just going to be allotted more time.

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We all get 24 hours.

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Just today.

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We may not get tomorrow.

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So, this is all we get.

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So how can I become more productive in a shorter amount of time?

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Using one already have.

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Well, walk the dog.

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And so those days when you have the don't wont's Walk the dog those days when you wish you had more time walk the dog.

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So here's how it works.

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It's the same thing as walking the dog.

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Number one.

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It's a non-negotiable number two.

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It's not a big time commitment.

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And, you know, it's beneficial.

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The same is true for your creative.

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Personal and professional life.

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So let me give you a couple of examples of walking the dog.

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Number one, reading.

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I'm a huge reader, but I did not read my first book until I was 25.

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After that, I was like bit by the bug.

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But I get it.

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You got a lot going on and you really don't feel like powering through a book.

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There's nothing in the constitution that says you have to read a book cover to cover.

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So take this same approach of walking the dog.

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Meaning that you can read a book a day.

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It doesn't mean that you have to read the whole book every single day.

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You just find a random book.

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What I call random reading.

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Every morning.

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I pick out a different book, a random book.

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The title jumps at me.

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I pull it off my shelf.

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I go to the table of contents.

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I read the chapter that most resonates with me.

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I just go to the table of contents, whatever chapter sounds interesting for the season.

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I'm in, that's the chapter I read.

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I set my timer for 15 minutes walking the dog.

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I set my timer for 15 minutes and I read that sometimes I get through the whole chapter.

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Sometimes I get only halfway through, but what I'm trying to do is, is I'm trying to trigger some ideas, something new, something enlightening that I can use that day.

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Now you can do the same thing.

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If you're not into reading books, you can do the same thing with an audio book.

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Same technique.

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Go to your audio book.

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Pick a chapter that most resonates with you.

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Listen to that one chapter while you're walking the dogs, then.

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When you get back.

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Walk the dog.

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write One page.

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Of what you took away from that.

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How do you interpret that?

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That's going to make you more receptive to your day.

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I say you should write one page every day.

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This empties your mind to clarify your thoughts.

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I'm telling you it is a total game changer.

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You do not have to be an author to write.

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This is for you.

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This is the only time that you're alone with yourself.

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And so you segment just a few minutes.

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To walk the dog.

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And write that one page.

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Do this every single day.

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Remember everything compounds.

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All right.

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Walk the dog.

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Fitness.

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We all wish that we were a little more fit, but Marsh I don't have two hours to work out at the gym.

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I walked the dog.

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10 minutes on the jump rope.

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Start off with three.

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Then go to five, then go to 10.

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You'd be amazed.

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JumpRope.

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You can take everywhere.

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I keep one in my book, sack.

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I keep one in my truck.

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I keep one in the garage.

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I take them everywhere because I can.

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Get cardio in anywhere I'm at.

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So walk the dog 10 minutes jumping the rope.

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In the mornings do that then in the evening, I'm just giving you something to kind of go by then in the evening, walk the dog, again.

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Set your timer for 10 or 15 minutes.

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Walk the dog, meaning pushups.

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Planks and pull-ups.

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Just that right there.

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Remember consistency over intensity.

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The intensity is going to naturally come about anyway.

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Just be consistent.

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The more consistent you are.

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The better results.

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You're going to see over time.

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And remember, the timeline we're own eventually.

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And ultimately, you do this consistently.

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Eventually things are going to tip.

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And ultimately you're going to succeed at whatever it is that you're doing.

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If you're in sales, same sort of thing.

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Walk the dog.

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When you get to work in the morning, 15 minutes, bang out those sales calls.

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This is going to set that day up.

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And then in the evening, The last 15 minutes of the day, prepare for the next day.

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So that way you're not rolling Tuesday into Wednesday.

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You just get it done.

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Everybody else is sitting there scrolling social media, waiting to get off.

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While you're walking the dog just 15 minutes.

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Everything counts.

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It all adds up good or bad.

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, you want it to add, you don't want it to subtract.

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So that last 15 minutes.

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Bang out another set of phone calls.

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Send the emails out just 15 minutes.

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And when that timer goes off, boom, go home.

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You've earned it.

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There's so many different ways that you can apply the technique of walking the dog.

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This will keep you consistent.

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This'll keep you motivated because it's not a huge time commitment.

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There's all kinds of different areas.

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So I've given you a few examples.

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What are a few more ways in your life that you applied walking the dog?

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Love to hear about it, share it with me on social media.

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Be sure.

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And tag me so I can show you some love.

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All right, let's get outta here.

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Keep it simple.

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Keep it moving.

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I never settle walk the dog peace.