'Spring' in my step

Spring is here! Although you wouldn't be celebrating yet if you lived where I do (Canadian prairies). It seems to have come for about a week and is dissapearing again. But as a true Canadian (not yet, but I've lived here long enough I feel like one), you get outside at any sign of snow melting and sun shining. And that's just what I did today. I don't know if it's that big rush of Vitamin D soaking into my skin (doubtful, I was wrapped up pretty well), or the fresh air, but I got a 40 minute road ride in and I feel excellent! 40 minutes for me is definitely a short ride, but anything's better than being cooped up in the house all day. Now I'm ready to tackle the world, or at least my homework. I'm not a fan of US Capitalism and I'm not a fan of big companies, advertising campaigns (waste of money), etc. etc., but for once I have to say that I really like Nike's "Just do it" slogan. There was a real genius there. Simple, so simple, yet so profound. I say that to myself when I'm trying to get up the motivation to do the things I need to do (ie., my homework, the dishes, a road ride, etc.) and then I think, 'just bloody do it!' It's so true. Once you've started something, it's almost like - what theory is that, kinetic energy or something, an object that is set in motion will remain in motion until some force is put upon it (usually gravity). Once I've started, I'm gonna finish, I'm sooooo not a quitter. Maybe that's why I find it hard sometimes to work up the motivation. Something else a friend of mine said once when she was working up the motivation to go to the mountains for a long hike, but was just plain tuckered out and low on energy. "Not once have I done some sort of physical exercise and regretted it. Not once have I said to myself, 'Why did I go and do that when I could have just stayed home and watched TV'" She's so right. I never go for a run, or to the gym, or on a hike, or anything physical and then think ' that was horrible, I'd wish I'd never done it.' It's so not me. So I think of those two phrases or ideas when I need to garner up the motivation to do something. Just do it and then you won't have any regrets. 'Nuff said.