Excellence is the Key to Greatness

Everybody wants to be great in life, business, ministry, vocation and academics but hardly find the way there. I am always unhappy when people who should be geniuses today are still struggling very hard to get to their desired position or destinations in life. In view of my observations and discontentment, it was laid in my heart to write on “excellence” being the major key to greatness.

Our major thing must be put into consideration. In fact, it is the central aspect of excellence and what is that? It must begin from your mind. You must fight failure and mediocrity in your mind before you can fight them in the reality. Vince Lombardi said; “your success in life will be determined more by the depth of commitment to excellence than by any other factor, no matter your chosen field”. Therefore, aspire as much as you can to be the best in your career or any chosen field you are involved. Brain Tracy, one of the foremost American geniuses and a philosopher also said; “no one is smarter than you and no one is better than you. If someone is ahead of you today, it is because he or she is doing something different from you. In other words, it is not impossible for you to achieve excellence in whatever you bargain for. Don”t you ever settle for mediocrity! An average performance is a limited performance.

Develop a passion for excellent performance. If you have not been taking the first position in whatever you’re doing, it is because you have been sleeping for too long. Wake up from Slumber! Performance is the only basis for promotion. Excellence is measured by action. A child who tops his class is not measured by his family background, nor race, nor psyche, but by the result of his performance in the class. And it didn’t just come by; of course it was followed by action principle. Oritson Swelt declared; “make excellence a life rule, to give your best to whatever passes through your hand. Stamp it with your personal character; let superiority be your trade mark”. Therefore develop an unquenchable passion for excellence. Become more committed than ever before to excellent performance. As the saying goes “whatever is what doing at all is worth doing well”. This is because people mind and even pay for excellent work or product or service. The world is full of mediocres, but the people in it appreciate excellent products, services or performance. This is the more reason why you can not afford to be a mediocre for life, so get up and get going. The world is really waiting for you!