If You Want Something

My son has recently discovered Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, so naturally, we had to watch it the other night. It was my first introduction to the program, but one of the episodes had the theme that, if you want something, you should try to make it yourself. This is, essentially, what I have been trying to do in the coaching/training realm for some time. There simply does not exist (at least in this area) the appropriate level/type of coaching necessary to prepare athletes and teams for sport while greatly reducing injury risk. So, I'm trying to make it myself.
I'm re-reading Daniel Pink's book Drive and last night went over the section on mastery. He talks about mastery being an asymptote - a curve that approaches a line but never actually touches it. You will never truly master something. There will always be something more to learn about your very specific area of focus. Even the greatest athletes, physicists, philosophers, coaches, or whatever profession you may envision, regardless of how much better at it they were than everyone else, never truly mastered it. But, as Pink notes, it is the attempt to master that is important. It is that part that is "fun." I put fun in quotes, because, as he also notes, a lot of it is actually grueling, monotonous, unsexy, un-fun work. I'm reminded of the Oatmeal comic that I've referenced before. It's hard to keep reminding myself that, as Sir William Osler wrote, 

"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb all your interest, energy, and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."