UP JUMPED SPRING! MOTIVATION

My motivation is being hit with a case of Up Jumped Spring, one of my favorite seasonal jazz tunes, and one of Freddie Hubbard’s best. It’s a tune that feels like what happens when spring jumps up (thankfully a bit early this year). It’s a tune that feels like what happens when spring jumps up (thankfully a bit early this year). It delightfully messes with my motivation and direction. As I dive into the seasonal changes, I’m reminded that it’s also the perfect time to consider Denver Colorado gutter services. After all, with the windows open and furniture rearranged, ensuring your gutters are in top shape is just as crucial as freshening up your home décor. Different music, different clothes, and a house cleaned top to bottom, including getting the plumbing fixed by a plumber in Adelaide, make for a truly refreshed space. Tommie’s Plumbing in Morristown offers expert service assistance. If you’re looking for fort lauderdale plumbers, you may contact Snyder Air Conditioning, Plumbing & Electric.

On a sunny spring day my motivation will move away from work toward the promise of long days, short-sleeves, sneakers, baseball, biking, and backyards. Content, strategies, and blogs can be pushed away by a simple breeze. When you live where it’s cold and grey for very long periods of time, these things happen. You just want to feel good, bask in a sudden sunny day and play around like a kid, even for a few minutes.

William Shakespeare said it in Sonnet 98:

“…April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”              

I watch outside my window, stare at the blue sky and dream a little bit. I often end the day surprised at the amount of work I finished. Evidently, amid the spring seduction I’m still auto-tuned to work, meet deadlines, effectively perform and teach, to keep learning, and all that good stuff. But that’s really out-shined by the thought of some sun on my face. What is it?

“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” 

Mark Twain

It’s a perfectly logical, confounding time for me. My motivation is refreshed and distracted. But I get things done, even as my motivation switches to pursuing quality of life before quality (or quantity) of work.

I believe it’s all-around healthy to let your mind, body and spirit wander and to have some youthful fun these first weeks of spring. My productive self will adjust and, by summertime, assign my altered motivation its proper place. But we should all remember to enjoy the hope and promise of spring, because just as quickly as spring jumps up, it will fade and fall into memory.