{"id":37,"date":"2026-04-23T15:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m-design.ca\/?p=37"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:13:47","slug":"good-design-is-good-business-thomas-watson-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m-design.ca\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/good-design-is-good-business-thomas-watson-sr\/","title":{"rendered":"Good design is good business- Thomas Watson Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The health and wellness industry is worth about a bazillion dollars. And yes, that is my exact personal calculation. As I age, I\u2019m starting to long for the shape of my body when I was younger. Not like teenager, thank you very much. But like in my early thirties. I had just moved to Canada, shed an ex-husband (loosing about 200 lbs!) and lost weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was long, lean and gorgeous. No sagging jowls or crinkly neck. Granted I don\u2019t have those now, but I\u2019m keenly aware that this is the best I\u2019ll look going forward. And I don\u2019t know how to feel about it. Because good design is good business and now all of a sudden, we\u2019re not talking about living rooms or moody washrooms. We\u2019re talking about the human body.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Wrinkles are human. How can they be so hated?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Apparently (and don\u2019t ask me how or why this can onto my feed) but do you remember Kris Jenner\u2019s facelift from last year? Now she\u2019s upset with the results, or so say the bots. And now I find myself reading about the differences between deep plane facelifts and SMAS<\/a>. Remind me again why I\u2019m spending my limited time on this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, it\u2019s because I feel youth\u2019s bounce gradually fading. I do not have the get-up-and-go mentality of my twenties anymore. My body is still strong, but now I’m looking for a personal trainer<\/a>. My shoulder started hurting about a year ago and I wasn\u2019t sure if it\u2019s because of a bad mattress or the impending perimenopause. Bu ta according to my physio I have weak scapular muscles which is throwing off my shoulder alignment. And my thoracic back is waaay too tense. So, I need now to be a bit more focused in how I approach my training. Earlier I never had to make this consideration before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now I\u2019m going to start designing my body. And good design is good business. I realize that personal training is not cheap. But I need help with a tailored program and someone to keep me accountable concerning my ongoing progress. And I\u2019m not the type of person to use AI for such things. No shade on if you do, but I need more human connection in my life, not sycophantic AI connection. I\u2019m not really loving the shape that it\u2019s in, but I know that this is part of the human experience and that I can design it. But hopefully I can stay away from the surgeon\u2019s knife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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