2010 - The Summary

Twenty-ten goes down as the best year of my life so far, slightly ahead of 2009 - which was the best year of my life exactly 365 days ago.

Of course that's really good news until you start thinking about the future. Scratch that. It gets a little scary when I think of today as the start of 2011. How am I going to make 2011 better than 2010?

It's not going to be easy - not that making 2010 a flabbergastingly surprising success was all that easy either. Taking a quick stroll through my blog entries over the past year, I'm still taken back considering I overcame what I did - especially in the fourth quarter.

I sat around today and watched/read interwebs stuff about great athletes and other very accomplished individuals. It only reinforced what I already know about achieving anything. It's not only "not easy," but it's absofuckinglutley grueling in most cases. The process of doing what it takes to make things successful is so much grimier and makes you so much more weary, exhausted and confused than I ever imagined.

That's what makes wins taste so sweet - I guess. Success always felt good, but in order to get really big successes you need to pour endless resources and failures into a bowl with glamorous and enviable ingredients in very careful portions to get it right. And that's before we put it in the oven. Lots of the success has to do w/ luck and trial and error. It also helps when you have good people help guide you. That's what I got in 2010. I had enough remaining talent and the best coaches in the world to help bring me to the majors. That's the biggest accomplishment of 2010. I'm finally eligible to play in the big leagues. Doesn't sound like such a big deal now does it?

Any of the great athletes and people I read about today always did one thing. They had killer numbers at the end of the year. More importantly, they had outstanding numbers when it mattered the most. I did that for the first time this year. I've always worked hard and done my job, but broadening my scope to see the entire field, division and league while learning how to interpret the intertwined web of action and reaction made the difference.