Day 88

Week 12, Day 1 Decelerator done. Today is the last day to do this workout for this round. Today is also the start of the last week of work. Week 13 is victory week, but it is really more like a transition week. I will have to bump up the workload that week as well. I plan on pushing hard this week to get the most of out the workouts. Tomorrow is MMX and while I like it, I have issues with the sprawls. I have been getting better with those and with the burpee challenge I am doing, I feel like I am progressing. I will see how it feels tomorrow.

I saw this video yesterday. It really inspired me and hit home with how I am doing things. Focus is great, but if you have to channel the focus correctly. Check it out.

The part that struck a cord with me was this part: What makes a person average is their focus. An average person is focused on getting paid, that's why they are average. A person who's good he is focused on "I want to make my boss happy". A person who's great, his focus is "What need can I meet". His focus is different.

That means that if all you want is to get paid, then you are average. Everyone wants to get paid. Good = make 1 person happy and great = fill a need (shared by more than one). The ability to see that and see it in that way is a huge eye opener, at least for me. Greatness means you have to do more than ordinary, you have to be extra ordinary. Extraordinary. Whether you use it as 2 words or 1, it means the same thing.  Unusually excellent or strange: very unusual and deserving attention and comment because of being wonderful, excellent, strange, or shocking. That is the number one definition of that word and it really does sum it up.

It doesn't matter what you do, do it great. You only have one life, live it. That small video made me decide last night that I have to do things better in my life, not for me, but in spite of me. You can be ordinary, but why be ordinary when you can extraordinary. Seize the moment and be extraordinary, because you CAN do it.

I challenge anyone who might read this to take that stance. It may only be small things that you have to do to be extraordinary. You don't have to walk a tightrope over the Grand Canyon to be extraordinary, but you do have to take that first step beyond ordinary. Whatever that is for you, be fearless and do it.