One of the things I’ve learned in improv is to ask myself: if this is true, what else is true?
For instance, if in an improvised imaginary world the sky is purple, then what else is true in that world? What else follows from that?
I’ve been thinking about that with pull-ups.
If it’s true that I learned to do overhand pull-ups in my early 60s, after starting with a partially torn rotator cuff, with long arms, as a woman over 60, then what else is true of me? What else can I do? What else have I assumed I couldn’t do because of my age, my body, my circumstances, or some story I had been telling myself for years?
This doesn’t have to be about pull-ups or fitness goals. It can apply to any part of life.
For me, the question goes much further back. If it’s true that I pulled myself out of being a single mom on welfare in my mid-forties, then what else was I capable of? If I managed to rebuild my life then, what else could I figure out later? If something I once thought was out of reach became part of my actual life, what else have I not even tried yet?
Today, after I did these pull-ups, that question came back to me: if this is true, what else is true?
What’s something you’ve done that made you wonder what else might be possible?
#ActiveAging #WomenOver60 #PullUpsAfter60
