Beyond the expected

Day 440 of my running a mile each day.

It's foggy here today, which is making it feel cold. Funnily enough, it wasn't so bad on my 6.30 a.m. run, but it felt colder later when I was out on my bike.

I was thinking this morning about the people who really inspire me, both locally and globally, and what I noticed that they all have in common is that they all go beyond what is expected.

In some cases these are people who help, or doing things for, others with huge amounts of kindness and compassion. In other cases, it is people who run marathons and go rock climbing well into their late 70's and beyond.

But they all go beyond what is expected by most people. They push the ordinary into the realms of the extraordinary, what a good friend of mine calls "a life less ordinary" (as opposed to a lifeless ordinary).

So, what could I do to go beyond what I, and others, expect of me?