Enjoying yard work?

Today, my wife heard the lawnmower start, then the weedeater start. She thought to herself, "I think Steven is starting to enjoy yard work."

Enjoy yard work? I told her that I wasn't really enjoying it, but much like pushups, I didn't really mind the work anymore, and that I knew that the results I wanted were on the other side of the work.

So a simple thing like pushups has changed my attitude and approach to something totally unrelated like yard work. As I think about it, it has changed my attitude about a lot of things. Pushups have taught me that If I commit to something, and accept what I have to do to fulfill that commitment, I can go about a task that I absolutely do not enjoy, and go about it joyfully.