6 Steps to Becoming Excellent in All You Do
Six takeaways:
Excellence is almost universally coveted and valued. While no two paths to excellence are the same, putting these six steps into practice will help you along the journey:
- Understand that worthy pursuits carry a price tag: true excellence requires a level of focus and dedication that may come at the cost of diligent attention to other parts of your life. Maintaining a balanced life is important, though excellence may require skewing time/attention in one particular direction temporarily. It is important to acknowledge that, because that allows you to make corrections.
- Get angry with your own mediocrity: The article is not calling its readers mediocre- it is just saying that making mediocrity the enemy pushes us to maximize our talents, energies, and tenacity as we pursue improvement. “Excellence trumps mediocrity when we exhaust our storehouse of talents,” Arcement writes.
- Be willing to be disciplined: discipline provides momentum, and helps us avoid the distractions that chip away at achievement of our goals. Prolonged discipline makes us stubborn and tenacious in our pursuit of excellence. To eschew discipline is to settle for less than what is possible.
- Don’t settle on only making use of a small part of your abilities: We cannot control the circumstances of our birth, or the set of innate characteristics we are blessed with. We can control the level of effort we put in to maximize the utility of these things. By being strong-willed, dedicated, and honest about your strengths, you can maximize your own qualities and leverage them in your pursuit of excellence.
- Remove the word “impossible” from your vocabulary: The first step in achieving anything is believing that it is possible. To think of something as impossible is to completely dismiss any chance of it happening. A simple mental switch of rooting out this all-too-pervasive word from one’s vocabulary and mind opens up a world of possibility.
- Be willing to step up your personal initiative: the most powerful motivation comes from within. Allowing external factors deter you is the easiest thing to do. Remembering that your own engine is the one that powers you is important in becoming the best version of yourself.
By Billy Arcement for The Business Journals
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