Personal Excellence. Read that. Now say it. What does it mean to you. I say it is a thing, an object contained (or not contained) within a person and it shapes their decisions at every turn. Every successful person displays Personal Excllence, Do YOU? Post your thoughts on what is your personal excellence, how do you polish it, where do you display it, and how often do you test it.
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Personal excellence is getting past the ego lies "this is good" "I am good" "I am good at this" that make us feel better about ourselves based on fantasy and realizing that knowing your weakness is a strength, and that only by clear-eyed self assesment can one improve ones lot in life.
Personal excellence comes from understanding that living in the past or the future is irrelevant and non-productive and serves only as chains with which we enslave ourselves to mediocrity.
Personal excellence means going to war with self-doubt, self-ism, self-negation and getting on with living the life you will to live.
Personal Excellence means integrity trumps every other card in the deck.
Simple, but hard.
Personal excellence is the code I weigh all of my decisions against. There are behaviors, actions, thought patterns, and perceptions that are beneath me.
I test it when I train. I test it when I do my job. I test it during snatches, deadlifts, and anything else that takes guts.
I test it when I speak to others. I test it when I write and when I choose what to read. I test it when I choose the company I keep.
I test it every time I take a breath. Without it, I wouldn't have a good reason to continue breathing.
Craig and Josh- great thoughts here. While i cannot say there is a "right and wrong" answer, those are both very very good!
I'm still trying to fully define what personal excellence is for me. What I do know is that there are some key elements in my life that are getting me to that answer.
KB's, the martial arts and philosophy have given me the ability to see in myself what is NOT personal excellence, and thus remove it.
Bruce Lee once said "It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." I really feel he was on to something there.