TV Sloppiness

Like most people, I really appreciate good movies and TV series, moreso the latter. For example, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime. Season 1 was superb. Season 2 is also good, but it suffers from a bad case of implausible coincidences and outright omissions. One minute Jack is about to be executed by an assassin, the next, the woman that was shot in the foot by said assassin and left incapacitated 100+ KM away shoots him in the back of the head. One scene, Jack gets stabbed in the arm, the next he is wearing short sleeves and wringing his hands without so much as a band-aid. The story line is still excellent, but these little things add up to make the show feel unbuttoned. It is like going to see Tosca at the Met and noticing that Mario Cavaradossi is wearing high top Converse sneakers. If the objective is to create an alternate reality for the viewer to immerse themselves within, then the craft must be at a higher level.

The Daily Pattern

Every morning when I wake up, my first thought is ending the day, which consists of the sequence of steps that match the pattern I want for myself on a daily basis. I start each step with an eye towards the next one, but no further. It is a very simple plan: coffee > gym > ready > eat > work > study > home > family > bed :-) Breakfast is my one and only meal on most days, so I don't have to deal with the logistics of lunch or dinner, nor do I have to effect any will power for said meals, nor do I have to kill myself in the gym to manage my weight. This particular plan is not for everyone, but the strategy of defining the lifecycle of a day and targeting it as a pattern to live by can, I think, work for everyone, whatever the pattern. Further, taking the guess work out of every day living leaves more room to be creative, because it conserves energy that might otherwise be spent on deciding between a salad or an entire bag of dark chocolate Hershey's kisses for lunch (wink).