“Do you think you’ll have any competition in London in 2012?” asked NBC sportscaster Bob Costas of Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps. “I never concern myself much with competition,” said Phelps, winner of eight Gold Medals. “I’m always competing with myself. My goal is always the same. I’m always working on getting better, on improving.” While very few of us may even come close to achieving what U.S.A. swimmer Phelps did during the XXIX Summer Olympic Games in China, the message we can take from him resonates within us all: raising the bar on our own performance, our personal expectations, no matter what vocation, what activity, what endeavor, so that we are always improving, always getting better.