If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.