https://www.google.com/search?q=shoveling+the+walk&

Go out early . . .
So early, that the sound your shovel creates a blissful sleep to the neighbors
(like the welcome sound of snowplows)

A sense of accomplishment which enforces itself:
-every time you look out the window
-when you walk down the street, where they did not shovel

It is just a good thing to do
(and one of those things we want to avoid)

If you are trying to avoid it
then, maybe it is the next thing to do