Another picture with no relation to the text, but it has a fish on a bench!

Most of us don’t spend a lot of time thinking about brushing our teeth.  We just do it, maybe even half asleep, hair sticking up in all directions, in the semi-darkness of an early morning bathroom when we’re not quite ready to flip the switch on the day.  And, amazingly, over the course of the two minutes or however long we spend, we wake up and find ourselves slightly more refreshed and usually a little minty.

With the exception of the minty part, this is how workouts should be:

•Inevitable.  We’re going to do it.

•Automatic.  We don’t have to do a lot of planning or organizing.  We just get it done.

•Not focused on appearance.  No one is looking at our hair.  Really.

•Invigorating.  We feel better at the end, more awake, more ready to face the rest of life.

I’m sure there’s a way to make workouts minty, but that would be beyond the scope of my ability—y’all can experiment and get back to me on that.