Good to Great Revisited

Not really sure where to go with this blog today. So much has happened over the last 10 days that I really just don't even know where to begin or how to address it here.
Let's see...I think the one thing that has stuck in my mind is something I have talked about here before in a different context...going from good to great. How does this happen? How does something go from good to great? It's very difficult to analyze things objectively and recognize it as good but not at it's full potential. There is no way to quantify potential. There is only feeling, intuition, research, hope. So how do you know when something that feels good and seems good IS really ONLY good and that there is more to develop and more to explore and more to create?
What I experienced for 8 days was something very good. Something that had been good for 10 months, had grown from nothing to become a very, very important part of my life. But then that something turned from good to great in the course of a day and suddenly the world opened up and everything looked and felt different. I had two days of great that seemed to make the past 10 months all come together into one moment, like the big bang pushing out a new universe.
It had been good. I thought it had been good enough, but in retrospect I see now that what I had was only the tip of the iceberg.
It doesn't seem too strange to experience this greatness. What seems so strange and difficult to accept is that this wasn't something I could understand and work towards. It took someone else to say NO to good to allow GREAT to become our new reality. I feel terrible, in a way. I feel disappointed in myself for accepting GOOD. I has led me to question other things in my life and wonder where I am settling for good enough instead of pushing through to the next level and reaching greatness.
Now that I have something great, how do I continue to grow it? I know that there were many factors that were catalysts to moving from good to great, and I will take what I can and continue to use it. I feel like the past 10 days has been a giant experiment in human relations. Really, its all about communication. And not being afraid.