Lulu writes and sweats

Several years ago I wrote a children’s book. I shopped it around a little, and although it got a smidgen of attention. No publishing house ever picked it up. The main character’s name was Lulu Grace. I love the name Lulu and always notice it when used in literature, the old comic strip, etc.

A couple of weeks ago I ran across an ad by the athletic outfitter lululemon athletica. The ad is basically a bunch of sayings in a crazy mumbo-jumbo layout. You’re forced to pay attention and read the affirmations one by one. I found a few that were very appealing and that I’m working toward incorporating in my daily life.

“Do one thing a day that scares you.” This statement is in the largest font and the boldest typeface. All right, here’s what I’ve decided to do. I signed up on the National Novel Writers Web site committing personally to write 1667 words each day during the month of November. That’s very scary.

The good thing about that National Novel Writers experience is that there is no self-editing for that first 30 days. You simply write. I’m jotting down ideas and working out characters. It will be a good test of my personal commitment to see if I can at least pull off the daily writing. I’ll trust the words to find themselves.

Another good affirmation on the ad is “Sweat once a day to regenerate your skin.” If you’ve just gotten to know me over the last couple of years you would be shocked to know I was once much smaller in body size and actually would run for exercise with Big Al. So…I’ve signed up with the YMCA for their “Spud to Stud” program which starts August 27, literally taking major couch potatoes like myself and over a 10 week period working with them so that they can run a 5k. I’m sure I couldn’t run 5 feet today, but I’ll let you know how this turns out in November.

Probably my favorite lululemon ad statement reads “Successful people replace the words ‘wish’ ‘should’ and ‘try’ with ‘I WILL’”.

Here I go (obviously still reeling from the empty next syndrome with the first fledgling) … I WILL write a book and I WILL run a 5K.

I’ll attempt to provide a humorous dialogue on my writing and sweating – maybe not always in that order - on this blog. It should be a hoot!