“You can become an even more excellent person by setting standards for yourself and then by doing everything possoble to live up to those standrads.”
I just couldn’t agree less with the above quote from Brain Tracy. We should all strive for Excellence. It entails aiming for the best and working hard to actualize it. One of the greatest problems in life is low aim. A lot of people expect little of themselves and so end up as mediocre. Those who aim high become high flyers. The greatest mistake one can make is thinking suucess is not attainable by ordinary people.
Extraordinary people remain ordinary poeple that put in the extra effort. Excellence is not only possible, but within your reach, if you put your mind to it.
Moreso, Excellence is not possible without thoroughness. What is worth doing is worth doing excellently. Ordinary won’t do. Why settle for bronze if you can stretch for gold? Why make do with good when Excellence is possible? What is good today is often surpassed tomorrow. Records are set. Records are broken. We celebrate too soon and so rest on our oars. The enemy called average should be avoided. Low aim is as bad as no aim.
As complicated as many people think being excellent is, I can assure you it isn’t. It starts from even the most smallest things you do. For instance, how neat you dress, or it could even be how organized your table is, in your office or at home.
It might also be how responsive you are towards handling people and things, how reliable you are, how professional you are in delivering a task, and so on. So when you look at these very little things and how better than average or good your approach is towards them, you can tell if you’re being excellent or not.
Excellence is a mindset that should be imbibed in all we do.
You can start now! You can measure up to become better. You can rise above the so called normal. So why not try to put the extra effort?
I hope you find it in you to live the extraordinary lifestyle of Excellence every day. Remember to be ordinary is Over!