A Week Later...

So I am about to finish the first of nine weeks of a "running program". It's actually quite popular and called, Couch Potato to 5K. This is a way to get from basic walking endurance to jogging for 30 minutes and finishing 3 miles. Who am I kidding, that's a 10 minute mile - that's running. 

I'm actually starting this program for the second time, as the first try was stalled out by life. It takes a few tries to create new habits and make healthy choices in reality. If only it were as easy as in the movies - you have a momentous week and suddenly you are a different person. This is more about seeing a goal and breaking it out into reasonable, achievable changes and inching forward...  And so I inch along... Hopefully at 10 minutes a mile... eventually...

Even though it's a lot of walking, the first week is just over 2 miles in 31 minutes. That's not too bad is it -- just about a 15 minute mile. A little extra effort would put me over the top -- shall I take that as a challenge?

As I develop the arc of various characters, I have become more keenly aware of the strange reality of movies. That change is trusted as permanent the power of the suspension of disbelief. Or maybe the joy of the suspension of disbelief. But that suspension yields a powerful opportunity to go on a journey and believe in change. I think that is one of the exciting things about what characters do in movies and even theater. And how the audience interacts with that character on their journey.