I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier. I think I've just about reached the end of my

obsession with Dolly Parton. It was so much fun while it lasted but I think it's burned itself out.

However, there is one last reference I want to make to Dolly Parton. In a fairly recent interview

in 2014, she talked about how she did sheve such big dreams for herself. She had started out in a

one-room cabin in Tennessee, one of 12 children. She was the first one in her family to graduate from

high school. How did she become such a superstar? She said, I've always been a dreamer and yes,

I've always tried and dreams are special things but dreams are of no value if they're not equipped

with wings and feet and hands and all that. If you're going to make a dream come true, you've got

to work with it. You can't just sit around. That's a wish. That's not a dream. When I heard that,

I was reminded of one of the mantras of one of my favorite podcasts, Chris Gillibot's Side Hustle

School. Every day on the Side Hustle School podcast, Chris talks about different strategies that

people have used to achieve their dream of creating a side hustle. At the end of every show, he says

the same thing that Dolly Parton said in his own words. Here's how Chris expresses it.

Inspiration is good but inspiration combined with action is so much better. Action work.

That's the difference between a wish and a dream. If you'd like to read the entire interview

with Dolly Parton, I'll post a link to it in the show notes. And if you'd like to check out the

podcast Side Hustle School, I'll post a link to that as well. I'm Gretchen Rubin and I hope this

makes your week a little happier.