Focus?

Have you ever noticed that:


DRIVE + EFFORT + COMMITMENT doesn't always = GOAL ATTAINED???


WTH?


I mean, don't get me wrong...I don't always expect succeed, but come on.


So, I was in the middle of a soccer field, in the dark hours of the morning this morning when this all occurred to me.
Hmmm.
And, I am not so certain why or where it came from.
Maybe it's because I am coming off of 2 battered and bruised marathon cycles...
Maybe it's because I received my "new" training plan yesterday (thank you T @ racingwithbabes).
Maybe it's because twice over the last week I have heard a good friend tell me that I "too often put everyone else's success before my own"...
Not really sure, BUT it brings to mind a very familiar saying:


"If you do what you've always done, you get what you've always gotten..."


And don't get me wrong - I do "do", I know this, as I get called "crazy, "insane", "hard core" all the time.
And I "get" and have "gotten" and I am proud of my accomplishments and successes, no matter how big or small they are or have been.


BUT, it's time to try "something new". And it's time to make that second line of this blog = doesn't always = GOAL ATTAINED!


-d