I just realized that I almost forgot to post the lesson that I learned in 2007.  Good thing I remembered, or it might have been lost to oblivion.

It's fitting that I just now realized that I had forgotten to log it.  Because the lesson is that sometimes you're just going to mess up.  But the lesson is that sometimes, you're also going to do great things! 

My lesson in 2007 was:  Be Super-Human.

You see, this lesson came in two very distinct ways to me this year.  I guess to expound on the two-word-message theme, I'd say the lesson was to fully experience what it means to be human.  That includes all the mishaps and blind luck and hard work and rewards and risks and everything else. 

I messed up more in 2007.  I was a worse parent.  I yelled a lot.  I had my first DNF in a race.  Ever.  (Well, except for that triple-cheeseburger incident before a 5k in my senior cross-country season in high school...)  As a manager, I lost my final employee and now manage no one (and not even myself very well, sometimes).  I wrote my first bad opinion into the newspaper.

I succeeded more in 2007.  In some ways, I learned to be an even better parent.  I had the first annual Man Meeting with my son.  I finished my 3rd Ironman.  I qualified for the Boston Marathon with a PR of 3:09:52.  I rode my bike to Fayetteville from my house.  I climbed a huge tower.  I was a great manager who was told he was the lone reason that a certain employee stayed around at my company.  I brought in more work than ever before.  I wrote my first-ever opinion into the newspaper.  Sometimes just having an opinion is success?

So I was about as human as anyone else.  Highs and lows for a guy that usually keeps an even keel.  I will keep trying to be more of the 'super' kind of human, and less human.  But some days, I will just embrace being human, and try to gain from the experience.  And I'll try to be okay with that.