RE: My greatest competitor
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Recovering perfection seeker. Hard to guess, I'm sure. Not just competition with others or myself, but with perfection. Of course impossible to live up to consistently, but definitely a part of impaired thinking that many of us were trained into. At least able to recognize and let go at 90% or better now as good enough (most of the time, lol).
That's a decent ranking, doing things with others better is always a learning opportunity, and keeps things interesting. How boring if at the top all the time!
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Yeah, me too actually Kris...Anything less than perfection was unacceptable to me...I saw the light though, and changed the pursuit of perfection into the pursuit of excellence. Small shift, massive difference. You seem to me like someone who doesn't value sub-standard results in yourself but we have to rein that in, morph that into a continual-improvement ethos instead I think. Well, for me anyway.
I was happy with how I shot on Saturday and have had a few messages, once the results came out, from people saying WTF. Well, I put some effort in, a lot actually. I worked harder, focused and...Surprise surprise...It paid dividends. I was also sporting my new Oakley's...I mean I always wear Oakley's but these are prescription sunglasses, bi-focal. The front sight focus is now ** in focus!**
Seriously though, this, the glasses, and the effort made for a good day. Those that beat me...Some of the best shooters in the State, at national level also really. I was shooting for 65% of the winner which would have placed me around 10th. So...Yeah, I was happy.
It's funny though...One can't look at the rankings and assume a shooter isn't good because they were outside the ten...That would be a mistake. Any one of those shooters on Saturday could operate with the best of them and there's incredibly small margins of time or accuracy that splits them. I'm talking tenths or even hundredth's of seconds sometimes...Millimetres where accuracy is concerned.
I god lucky on Saturday and performed...Skill? Speed? Accuracy? Strategy? Yep, all of them...But attitude too.
I know you know what I mean.