I had another discovery

Last night while going through some keyword lists, I had another discovery- while looking at keyword stats, I was focusing on the totally WRONG stats. I was focusing too much on competition and not the actual monthly searches. WRONG WRONG WRONG. The competition really doesn't matter that much. The mere fact that they're there means there's obviously "gold in them thar hills" so to speak. Damn the competition, focus on monthly searches, start in the middle of the road with a good amount of searches and start with those keywords and optimize the tags and page for each.