You will maintain good health and enjoy
life.
SNARKY RESPONSE: Really?
You will maintain good health and enjoy
life.
I sure wish I'd drawn this one out of my fortunes
collection before last Saturday. Why you ask? Last Saturday, I tripped and
fell, resulting in bruising and general unhappiness all over my body. Luckily
nothing was broken and I'm much better now.
However, this fortune does bring to mind
a point. Writing is a sedentary career. We do all the heavy lifting in our
minds and the only parts of our bodies that get a real work-out are our
fingers. Okay, I should acknowledge that there are genres of writing that
require physical involvement – outdoors writers, travel writers, sports
writers, etc. – but most of us spend the majority of our time at a desk,
seated, for hours on end. If that's won't contribute to a bit of spread and
gradual flabbiness, nothing will.
So, what's a dedicated writer to do? Get up
and move around regularly.
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| The First Wives Club |
One of my favorite scenes in The First
Wives Club was when the three "first wives" Diane Keaton, Bette
Midler, and Goldie Hawn were brainstorming ways to get back at one of their
husbands. Goldie Hawn was up on their office treadmill and said she got her
best ideas there. True to her word, she came up with an excellent observation
and Bette Midler exclaimed "She does get her best ideas on
there." (or something to that effect)
It's an often cited piece of advice that
when you're blocked, you get up and do something else. But don't let that be
the only time you get up. Aside from going in search of the obligatory caffeine
or treats to stimulate and/or lure the muse. Exercise! Take a walk. Get on a
rebounder. Switch on the exercise channel and follow along. No one cares if you
don't do all the exercises with the grace and aplomb of those way perky exercise
divas. The point is that you're moving and the more you move the easier it will
become.
Oh, you say, that's easy to say from way
over there. So, what are you doing? Admittedly, I've not been doing much, but I
am posting this as a formal Declaration of Intent.
I will begin to include more exercise in
my routine beginning today. How about you? Are you game?
Together we WILL maintain good health and
enjoy life!
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