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By Dr. Robert J. Watkins
How Can You Be Excellent?
“Excellent people don't settle for excuses for why they are not succeeding.”
How can your business or ministry stand out from the crowd? This is a great question. However, we cannot talk about business excellence without dealing with "personal excellence."
Webster's Dictionary defines excellence as "the state of being exceptionally good in quality and character." The root word of excellence is "excel" which is defined "to be greater or to surpass others." Henceforth, to be a person of excellence is to surpass others by being exceptionally good in quality and character. A good example of a person whose personal excellence caused promotion and favor in his life is Daniel. Daniel's godly character and tenacious stance concerning his faith led him to be preferred over other more tenured leaders. It wasn't Daniel's expensive clothes or neatly cropped hair that caused the king to pick him out of the crowd. Daniel's excellent spirit caused King Darius to publicly proclaim Daniel's promotion when others seemed to be more qualified.
As good people, people should seek out our businesses because we are best. No one wants to hire a mediocre brain surgeon or inadequate beautician. And, top corporations only want to hire excellent employees. So how can you be excellent? Here are a few of my observations of excellent people:
1. People of excellence are honest about where they are and then they raise the bar. Excellence doesn't suggest you are the smartest and wisest in the earth. People of excellence understand their personal strengths and weaknesses, but work hard to make themselves better at what they do.
2. People of excellence constantly work on themselves. Excellent people don't settle for excuses for why they are not succeeding. If they are overweight, they work on it. If they need to make more money, they work on it. Excellent people don't wait for someone to motivate them to action. Their motivation is internal.
3. People of excellence realize they cannot be perfect. Perfection should never be a goal of any person. There is only one perfect man, God. However, you and I were born into sin (Psalms 51:5), therefore we make mistakes through our imperfections. However, excellent people realize when mistakes are made, they ensure they're never made again.
So where do you start? 1. Make the people around you feel important; 2. Correct mistakes immediately; 3. Get rid of negative habits like overeating or oversleeping; 4. Always display a positive attitude and 5. Make everything you do excellent. Promotion and favor is on its way to your life.
Marilyn L. Ali
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