So many swimmers wonder how far are they going to get? Are they going to continue swimming? Will they get better? And sometimes, they’ll get so caught up on the how’s, when’s, and why’s that they don’t even begin.
To get better at something, to be better, to do better, you have to start.
Sometimes, you’ll get so caught up in the planning and the future, you forget about now. Right now. In this moment. This breath.
Sometimes, you’ll let fear stop you from initiating something. Before you even put a foot forward to start this new idea – you pause. And at that moment, you consider everything that could happen from this action, all the positives and all the goals accomplished. But then there will be doubt.
When doubt comes around, and it will, you can’t let it hinder you. If this is what you want to do if this is what you want to do with your summer, your year, your life – go for it.
You don’t have to be the best at something to enjoy it. There will always be somebody that will pass you. In everything, there will be that one – or more – person(s) that just seem so good. And that’s okay.
You can’t be the best in everything because then you wouldn’t have anything to work towards. You wouldn’t have any goals.
Without goals, without something to work for, life would be pretty boring.
It would be boring because we wouldn’t have purpose.
Purpose is what we strive for. Well, that and perfection – but that’s for another week.
We need purpose in our lives because it gives us something to live for, something to work for, something to do.
So, when you want to do something or something interests you, don’t let that little niggling thing in the back of your brain stop you from going for it. Don’t let fear of the new make you pause. Don’t let the fact that you won’t be the best, in the beginning, push you away.
Because “you don’t have to be great to start; but you have to start to be great.”