Sifting through old emails brought up a really great one from a dear friend and mentor. This part was worth sharing:

Training for any goal no matter how grand is not wildly exciting and few have the discipline to train well. Those in professional sports talk of running stairs, swimming laps for hours but the outcome of great discipline is great results. Many people dream of great results, victory, inner circle status, but they don’t have the daily disciplines to chunk life down into daily routines that get them to the top of their game. They lose site of the goal, get distracted or have a weak will. It also involves defining what “great” means to you personally. And it includes believing that God wants the best for you. You have been granted one life to live. Make it count. Be bold, be heroic, be kind, love, delight others, believe in yourself, God and others.