Keep reading good books that enrich you with the latest knowledge from multiple perspectives. Books provide diversified knowledge, information, and ideas that you can choose and that can help you grow.
Constant learning is a boon. Reading good books by great authors will inspire you. If possible, note key points for future reference. Sometimes people think they know everything. There is always something that can be learned from each book, provided you have an open mind to learn and grow. In addition, different authors present content from different perspectives, thus enriching your knowledge. Work smart and wise: You must learn to work smartly, wisely, and hard in order to achieve excellence.
There is a difference between working hard and smart work. Working hard is all about perspiration without any planning and preparation.
In contrast, working smart is about thorough preparation with a proper blueprint to proceed, along with perspiration. Hard work consumes a lot of time, money, and resources, while smart work conserves time, money, and resources.
Share your knowledge: Knowledge grows when it is shared. Develop an attitude to help and serve others. We brought nothing into this world and will take away nothing from this world when we die. What we can do is share our knowledge so people can benefit. Sharing your knowledge, writing articles, and mentoring others will sharpen your mind. You will get great pleasure when you see people growing in front of you. Solicit continuous feedback: Continuous feedback is essential for excellence.
As feedback is the breakfast of champions, people must take feedback from others without any false ego. Feedback spots the chinks in the armor. It helps people to know their weaknesses so they can work toward improvement. In fact, continuous improvement paves the way for excellence. Manage constraints: There will be several constraints and obstacles in the path to achieving excellence.
Some are internally created by human errors, and many are externally created by forces beyond human control. Hence, learn to manage both external and internal forces and factors that prevent you from achieving excellence.
If you like playing music, then your next level would be performing on stage, starting a YouTube channel or composing your own songs. If you like dancing, your next level would be to join a dance team or to compete in championships.
While you might not find the time to spend hours on end at the gym every day, you should try to infuse exercise into your lifestyle. For example: you can bike to work, do a yoga routine from YouTube at night or go for a walk during your lunch-break. Then, list ideas on how you can cherish and deepen these strengths while doing what you love.
Another powerful skill to learn, is to be fully aware of the signals your body and mind are giving you. Give yourself a break to refuel. Identify your black holes: those activities or people in which you spend time without feeling inspired. Typical black holes are unsatisfying friends hips, TV, and social media websites.
Build a network of passionate, positive people and frequently spend time with them. Finding people that are striving for excellence like you, might be a challenge but enroll in activities and connect to people. Discuss your passions and values with them and if you feel a response, deepen that friendship. Both online and in your field of expertise, you should connect to the experts in your field as well as new-and-upcoming talents.
Learn from the masters and share your experiences with your fellow apprentices. Get rid of debt. A house is probably the only thing worth a loan- all the rest you should not get on credit. For all your past failures and mistakes, forgive yourself and all others involved. If necessary, write about it. Write why you are still upset about it. Show others that you are the go-getter. If the going gets though, show your stamina. Identify the hard, deep work that you need to do to move your projects forward.
Even if you are trapped in your cubicle during office hours, try to break out for lunch. Avoid centering your life around your home and your office, but try to shift your location a few times during the day.
Fresh places bring fresh ideas. Your engine needs high quality fuel. When you are working on your goals or on activities aligned with your mission and values, throw all of yourself to them. Your love for those tasks will not go unnoticed. Write about your dreams and hopes, talk about them and show others how much you care. Your enthusiasm will make you shine, and will bring you connection and possibilities.
Creative thinking is one of the most important skills to learn. Teach yourself how to think out of the box. Make mind maps, lists and always look for the road less traveled. Ask critical questions whenever you can. Go to a museum to see works of art and read the comments of experts. How are the emotions and details explained? Which symbols are used? Learn to interpret art, and voice your feelings and opinions. You spend a third of your time sleeping, and about a quarter of that time dreaming.
Your dreams are the key to your subconscious. Teach yourself to remember your dreams, document and analyze them to understand what is at the back of your mind. When you need to break out of your comfort zone and you are scared, imagine that you are your own superhero or idol.
Ask for advice and feedback whenever possible, take notes, and learn from these comments. For more inspiration, read the biographies of the leaders you admire. You will learn about the hardships and failures they faced and how their resilience brought them great success in the end.
Connect people from your network of whom you think they should meet each other. Organize inspiring events, such as discussion tables during lunch, an art club or a series of lectures and bring people together. Your weekends are a sacred time. Know beforehand what you will be doing and avoid the trap of staying in bed too long. Make sure you have plenty of time for inspiring and interesting activities. If you want to be able to think clearly during the day, you need to get your sleep at night.
If you find it hard, then put an alarm at night to signal your bed-time. Use tools and apps to analyze your output and how you spend your time. With these results, you can optimize your productivity. Frequently meet your mentor, and openly discuss your fears and plans. Open your mouth at meetings, parties, and social gatherings.
Step out of the shadow of your own limiting beliefs, let go of the fear of judgment, and speak your mind. Most of the times we can see that failures are even a bit funny if we learn to take a step aside. We also tend to notice things around us that are congruent with the thoughts and beliefs we have and the things that are important to us, which become evidence supporting our thoughts and beliefs. So what does that have to do with excellence and perfection.
If excellence is about continuously improving, doing the best you can and looking for ways that you can build on that to be that little bit better day by day, then your focus when you are striving for excellence is on all the things you are already doing well.
If you want to provide excellent customer service or be an excellent boss, you need to look at what you are already doing that works really well and work out what you can do next, now, today to make it that little bit better.
Excellence is a daily, never-ending journey. That means that the majority of your focus is on the things that are working really well and on the next thing you can do, which is within your reach. That can be incredibly motivating and inspiring because we all have an innate need to do better, to excel. On the other hand, if you are striving for perfection, your focus is long-term and on the things that are missing between where you are now and the point of perfection, that is the point at which it can not get any better.
That can be demoralising because you are not gradually building on all the things that are working well now, you are focusing on a wide chasm that can seem impossible to jump over. They expect themselves to know everything, to out-perform everyone, to always know the right thing to do or say, to be above reproach, and never let anyone down.
This is not only unrealistic, its a heavy burden to carry. People often confuse perfection with excellence. Excellence is a healthy striving to be outstanding or above average. It promotes personal growth and improvement. But perfectionists dont just expect excellence, they have such painfully high standards that anything short of perfect is intolerable. Unlike excellence, perfectionism is a narrow, intolerant expectation that we will never make mistakes or have any imperfections.
Excellence, on the other hand, allows for imperfections and mistakes; its more forgiving than perfectionism. The primary difference between excellence and perfectionism is the way making mistakes or having flaws is viewed.
As perfectionists, we tend to overgeneralize mistakes and shortcomings. We take one mistake and use it to deem ourselves as complete failures or inferior. This thinking error keeps perfectionists stuck on the negatives and unable to see the potentially positive aspects of mistakes and imperfections when in reality there are many benefits to embracing our imperfections and learning from our missteps.
When we expect perfection, well inevitably be disappointed. Everyone makes mistakes no matter how smart they are or how hard they work. Instead, we should strive for excellence. Excellence is striving high, but offering yourself grace for mistakes made and things you dont yet know. Martin, , page 7. And when you expect yourself to do the impossible, youre constantly disappointed. You tear yourself down with harsh criticism that far exceeds your actual shortcomings or mistakes.
And no matter what you accomplish, you never feel good enough. When we pursue excellence or high standards, we value the process, not just the outcome. We know that the learning, fun, relationships, and memories that we build along the way, are often as important as the outcome.
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