@the_inner_game: What differentiates good athletes from world-class athletes is the ability to show up when circumstances are far from ideal and the urge to skip a workout is the strongest. It's doing the hard thing when convincing yourself that it's not worth it is easier. Elite athletes always take steps forward. If that's twenty, thirty, forty percent… Anything above zero compounds. The athletes you admire didn't simply out-train you physically. They out-trained you mentally.