Swimming upstream

Last night was the first night this week that we were both home for dinner (not counting when we went out Sunday night to recreate our first date 3 years ago! :) so I finally got a chance to cook up some of the salmon we got last week.  Yum. 
 
Then I started thinking about the types of fish that are able to swim upstream, using an internal compass that responds to the earth's magnetic fields to chart their path.  I'd love to think that I have such a singular focus on the things that are important in my life, but the reality is that it's a daily struggle and often I feel (like I do this week) like I'm swimming upstream.  So it's a comfort to know that even the fish have to take their "steps" upstream by leaping!  Is it Friday yet?!? 
 
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
~Frederick Douglass