I have spoken before, and will again, of my love of old classic Broadway Musicals. One of my favorites, Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man recently came to mind. In the film version charlatan Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston) woos Marion the Librarian (Shirley Jones) while scamming the town into buying all the instruments for a boys band with the promise he will teach them how to play. But he is a fake and convinces the band all they have to do is think about the tune, Beethoven’s Minuet in G and soon they’ll be able to play it.
Long story short they buy the instruments, discover he’s a fake, Marion and Harold fall in love, Marion’s little brother (Ron Howard) comes out of his dark shell, the boys manage to “think” a shaky version of the minuet and the band forms, the town forgives and everyone lives happily ever after!
The point of this long, self-indulgent reverie is that if the think system really works, (and it must because even in a musical they would not make things like that up), why not apply it to real life? I read an article by the Harvard Medical School about seniors exercising through knee and hip pain. Their suggestions include a lot of physical movement. A bolt of genius lightning struck me and I developed “The Think System” for exercise and weight loss. Before marketing it I decided to try it myself. The results were a touch disappointing. After four weeks I gained 3 lbs. and am as sore as ever.
I know I am on to something but the solution eludes me. Quiet! I have to think!