I maintain my body at optimum health.

Nothing happens when it works. That's the peculiar problem with maintenance: done properly, it produces no story, no before-and-after, just another ordinary Thursday.

The oil change nobody remembers is what prevents the breakdown everybody would. But the oil change gets no credit, because the breakdown never occurred and so was never a fact.

Motivation can't come from results when the result is an absence. It has to come from something quieter — closer to self-respect than to ambition. Optimum isn't a peak you summit. It's a floor you keep swept.