Speed skater Dan Jansen won an Olympic gold medal in the 1000-meter race at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics, and he set eight world records over the course of his stellar career. He explained the importance of setting your goals high: “I don’t think there’s any such thing as setting your goals too high. The higher you set your goals, the more you are going to work—if you don’t reach it, then it’s okay, just as long as you set it and then give a hundred percent of yourself.”
