It isn’t sufficient just to want. You’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

In Hero of a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell describes the hero’s journey this way: most of us look for a path when we enter a forest. But the hero enters the forest in its deepest and darkest place, where no one has ever entered before. And because he chooses this route, the hero has a very different experience. He faces his demons and the monster

But you have to risk getting lost because chasing a dream—really chasing it—will lead you to places you never thought were out there. Places no one else would ever care (or dare) to go if they knew about them ahead of time.

Everyone needs a diagnosis, an excuse. I could be a great runner if it wasn’t for this damn asthma; the pain in my knee has really interrupted my training; I have to get my diet figured out. As long as you have a good excuse as to why you haven’t started to fly, you never will.

I encourage people to forget about what they want to have or possess—it’s a waste of time.

If Barbara doesn’t expect to win, she has already forfeited the race. And so have you. You have given up your chance to find out just how fast you can go. The best way to approach a race is to win! The only way to find out how good you can really be is to be willing to give everything you have in an attempt to win. The desire to win is the same as

What you believe about yourself and your world is the primary determinant to what you do and, ultimately, how well you do it.

Changing your belief system means you must admit that what you previously believed was wrong or is no longer true.

We discussed that if you truly want to get better, then you have to want your workouts to be hard, to be painful. It makes no sense to wish away the difficult once you realize that it is essential to your improvement. In order to run a personal best, one must be willing to hurt. If you are wishing away the pain, you are also wishing away the thing