If you choose the goal, you also have to choose the work that comes with it. If you want to be great, you don’t get to decide each day whether great effort is necessary. You already made that decision when you set the goal. If you commit to the goal, commit to the cost.

"You don’t get rewarded for doing what is required."@inkyjohnson Greatness is not given to a chosen few. Greatness is given to the few who choose to do 'more than what's required'. To be great, you have to give great -great sacrifice, great focus, great discipline, great effort.