"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." ~Jim Ryun

motivating and refreshing, to me, currently:

• new shoots of green grass
• a clear and clean dining room table
• open windows
• unclogged toilets!
• shredding the 'to shred' pile of papers
• keeping up with laundry - a load a day friends, works wonders. i know, i know, there are 'do it all in one day' laundry fans out there - but really - too much pressure for me in one day - plus, that then rules the day, keeping up with the washer... (and what happens if it doesn't get done? now you're 'behind?', does it carry over into the next day or does it wait until next week?) also if you can wait to do all your laundry once a week - you have may have MORE clothes than we do, or you (and others in your household) are very neat and clean and don't play in mud, dirt, sand, paint, glue, etc.... just saying    enough on laundry, sorry about that
• SUNSHINE!!! 
• music
• putting things in the mail that have been waiting to be mailed
• meal planning
• being outside
• less stuff on the kitchen counter
• fabric, fabric is highly motivating, and lovely, and beautiful, and wonderful, and colorful, and so on
• not being sick after being sick
• great coffee
• friends near and far
• singing out loud  
• girls dancing in very silly dress up
• clearing off work areas
• having people over
• nap time (haha, speaking of someone who's supposed to be napping: ellie JUST walked out to show me her baby - covered in stickers "look mom, I decorated my baby" she says in a whisper... )