#wegotgoals

As little kids, most of us entertain the idea of becoming a pro athlete at one point or another. In 1996, for example, I was seven years old and totally convinced that I was going to become the next Brandi Chastain and spend my days on a soccer field, having abs and shooting penalty kicks. So what if you had that opportunity — the chance to be a pro athlete and achieve a lifelong goal that's limited to a select percentage of the population — and you turned it down? Even crazier, what if you had that opportunity in three different sports and you turned it down each time? That's the choice trainer Pat Gilles was fortunate enough to face — and the reason he turned down professional careers in hockey, golf, and sailing led me to view goals from a different perspective. "I didn't know at the time exactly which path would be better or not," admits Gilles, who won the title of America's Most Inspiring Trainer in 2017. "All I did was trust my gut. And I always say, I don't think there's a wrong decision — you just ha