as far as self-improvement in getting after it goes whose standard should one
measure themselves by so who do I use as a standard to measure myself by it's
it's really everyone and no one because there's people in the world that have
skills and strength and talent that I will never have Oh reading some of these
notions that you can be whatever you want to be is as long as you want it bad
enough those are not true there are fairy tales we all have
limitations and I don't have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifting
champion I don't have the right genetics to be an Olympic champion sprinter or a
gymnast or whatever sport you want a name now sure if I trained my whole life
perhaps I could have achieved some high level in those sports but I can tell you
I do not have the DNA to be the best in the world in those categories so what
does that mean does that mean that I give up does that mean that I quit of
course not not at all it means that I'm gonna try to be the best that I can be
the strongest the fastest the smartest the smartest human that I can become
that's what I'm gonna go for and I will I will compare myself to others and and
look at them and see what they're doing and I'll say
that it is possible how close can I get to that greatness how close can I get to
that glory but the reality is that my glory it doesn't happen in front of a
crowd it doesn't happen in a stadium it doesn't happen on a stage
there's no medals handed out my glory happens in the darkness of the early
morning in solitude alone where I try and I try and I try again to be
everything that I possibly can be the best that I possibly can be better than
I was yesterday and better than other people thought I could be faster and
stronger and smarter and with one victory that no one can ever take away
from me a victory that is earned every single day a victory of determination
and will and discipline and a victory that is achieved because I will not stop