Your website is in a marathon race, are you training?

Your website is like a runner in a marathon race. You have choices.

You can train, train hard, and compete. No guarantee of a first
place finish. None. But the more you train and are prepared, the
better chance you have. Unfortunately, there are runners who
are better than you. Period. That's life. Keep striving to get
on top. Others outrunning you is not a penalty.

You can choose not to train. Just enter the race, see what happens.
Sure, you may sprint for awhile, pass people. But as the race
goes on, you tucker out. You slow down. Your only hope is to
maybe just finish, back of the pack. May be get lucky and
other runners are in worse shape. You don't finish last, but
you sure do struggle, going fast, slowing down, walking, maybe
getting a second wind.

Now, who penalized you and caused you to finish way down?

You can choose to do stupid things. Like smoke, do drugs, eat
lots of ice cream. Get drunk the night before. Sleep in and start
the race late. Grab the wrong shoes. Forget or ignore the water
cups along the way. Stop and rest. You just can't finish the race,
or finish way back.

Now, who penalized you and caused you to finish way down?

You can choose to break the rules. You filled the form out wrong.
You did not get the entrance fee there on time. Your check
bounced. You failed a drug test. You cheated, took a short cut.
Maybe even rode a bus part of the way. You get disqualified. You
are completely banned from the race.

Now, who caused you to get banned? Did the officials just have
it for your? Did they single you out? Did others slip by unnoticed
so you should get a pass too?

Paul