Alisa and I were doing our standard early morning cardio yesterday. Flipping through the channels of the flat-screen on the wall of our home-gym looking for something to pull our attention for thirty to forty minutes.. and nothing but children's shows that early on a Saturday is what usually challenges us. Then we stumbled upon Public TV artist-turned-art-teacher Bob Ross. Next thing I noticed was instead of waiting for the time to pass, I was stalling to stay on the machine just a little while longer so I could see his next strokes reveal the images that were developing in his mind. All of a sudden the time was effortless and the targeted thirty minutes past and  forty-five minutes seemed to short. It was time to stop yet we both were still clinging to our machines waiting for the mountain-scape to unfold and the snow to be powdered onto the trees in the foreground.

You may want to try this for yourself... find your local PBS channel guide and see when  Bob Ross's show, The Joy of Painting is on. If it airs at a time when you're not doing cardio.. TiVo it. Try watching this during your next cardio session and let me know if it has the same effect of making the time go almost too fast as it did for Alisa and I.