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she personified mastery of the concept of small enjoy-
ments. Her magazines and television programs cel-
ebrated cooking, gardening, and home entertainment
skills. Her own contagious enthusiasm for the things
she enjoyed made her, in my opinion, one of that era’s
true heroes of optimism. If you’re feeling like you have
forgotten how to enjoy your own home, yard, or kitchen,
you might buy one of her books and allow her optimism
to inspire you.
You can increase your own self-motivation by learn-
ing to be more aware of the profound difference between
enjoyment and mere pleasure.
88. Keep walking
Ever since I was a child, I had a recurring dream
that I began each day facing a mattress. The more I
pushed into this mattress before my day began, the more
the indentation went in, and the more saved-up the
sprung energy of the mattress got. The more the mat-
tress was indented with my pushing at the start of the
day, the higher it would spring up when I lay down on it
to sleep at night.
I would lie down on this mattress at night and see
how high my dreams would fly me. How high I flew would
always depend on the indentations I gave the mattress
during the day. The impressions I gave it. How impres-
sive I was. The difference I made.
So then after thinking about that dream the other
day I decided to step up my walking. I decided that the
recurring dream was the way my subconscious chose to
tell me something vital. Something about the difference
walking made. Something about oxygen being pushed
into my system.
Walking would be an action I could take while wide-
awake. Walking would drive more oxygen into my lungs.