What if in the next race or event you have, instead of focusing on XYZ time, you put your energy and focus into mastering the task. Mastering the race. Ask yourself what does that look like? What are you doing? What does training look like? What does that feel like. Can you bring in support and feedback? Can you be open to the pain of failing part of it? Can you be patient? Keep striving, and keep moving forward?

Having a ‘Why’ constructed through values is one way that I orient myself on a journey. They, being values, provide a bearing to the direction you want to go. Goals on the other hand are the values in action. They are the waypoints to the journey.