The real contest is always
between what you've done and what you're capable of doing.
You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

If you don't make mistakes
you're not working on hard enough problems.
And that's the biggest mistake.

The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible of reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.