“You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.”, said Joe Falcon.
Joe is a former US middle distance runner whose greatest success was his victory in the 1990 Oslo Dream Mile with a time of 3:49.31 minutes, which was the fastest mile in the world in 1990.
Being the best is not what is important. What is important is being the best that you can be!
You may not even be able to measure your goal against the whole world to know you are the best. But you can measure yourself against your effort and your work. You will know if you are the best you can be.
What can you do this week, to make you better? Make one more step towards being the best you can be.