The Day You Stop Racing is the Day You Win the Race

I love to win. I won’t deny that for a moment. I also love competing — I feel energized and fully activated in my aliveness by stepping up to the rest of the pack and saying, “I am.” But competition is just one part of life, and not nearly the most important part.

Just so you don’t think I’m going to try and convince you to “take it easy,” and settle for some half-life you don’t really want, I feel as though I have to admit that I work between 8–15 hours a day, every single day, to build my perfect life.

It doesn’t happen automagically, and it doesn’t happen overnight. They say that overnight success takes about ten years, and that seems about right. It’s certainly a marathon, not a sprint.

I’m also never (EVER) going to tell you to give up on your dreams of success and victory. If you give up on your dreams, what do you have left? Nothing!!!

Sorry if that sounds trite, but it’s absolutely true. So I’m not for one minute telling you to abandon anything that’s important to you. What I am passing on to you from my own experience is that the important part isn’t winning, but rather becoming the kind of person you had to become in order to win. And that happens daily — it’s a process, not an event.