THE CREDENTIALS FOR EXCELLENCE

The desires of everybody; irrespective of their ages, classes, ambitions and race is to become a high flyer and live a successful and impactful life. As we all know, excellence is never measured by the numbers of ones's gray hairs, academic qualifications, bank account balance and political affiliations. But it emanates from unusual efforts and commitment been put in place by mentalities of greatness. This is void of mediocrity, low self esteem, unusual fears and unfocused life.

This means that, no matter your age right now, you can still become great and successful in life, business, ministry, vocation or academics. You can still live a better life than you lived yesterday.

But the most challenging questions to many today is that; what must i do to become a high flyer in my chosen career? Does it mean that my efforts are not enough to be an excellent being? Are you sure am not under a generational curse? e.t.c.

Life looks so discouraging when you see people who should have become or should be geniuses today still struggling very hard to get to their desired positions or destinations in life. In view of my observations and discontentment, it was laid in my heart to write on ''The Credentials of Excellence'' being the major key to greatness.

One major thing that must be put into consideration 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.

Performance is the only basis for promotion. You have to develop a passion for excellent performance. If you have not been taking the first position in whatever you are doing, it is because you have been sleeping for too long while your competitors have been busy putting on unusual efforts. Wake up from Slumber!. 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 worth doing at all is worth doing well. This is because people mind and even pay for excellent work or product or services. 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!

Excellence is not attained by chance or heritage, it is an art that must be consciously achieved through a conscious and persistent effort. Among others, the following stand as major means through which you attain the position of excellence.

1. Desire it intensely.
This is the core aspect of excellence. What you don't desire, you don't attract. And even when you get it by CHANCE OR LUCK you don't value nor respect it. You must desire excellence intensely. That is when it can be accepted by your subconscious mind. Then your subconscious mind upon reception can now direct thoughts towards your conscious mind and then bring it into its physical reality.


2. Think excellence:
Everything in the reality has its thought antecedent; every action is a product of thought. Every battle in life is won or lost in the arena of thought. You must be conscious of the fact that life is spiritual; man is a spirit who has a soul and lives in a body. The bible clearly states that; ''As a man thinketh in his heart so is he is. Therefore, you must develop the mindset of excellence for you to attain excellence.

In fact, this is the foundation. Think excellent thoughts always. By the time you think in excellent terms, failure thoughts would not be able to penetrate into you. Your life will always move in the direction of your dominant thought. You must break yourself free from those thoughts that limit you in life. You must emancipate yourself from those thoughts that will not move your life forward; thoughts of poverty, failure, sickness, pain, lack etc. Don't set any limitation in your mind. Don't be limited in your mind, whatever becomes real in your mind, God will make real in your life. So, fill your mind with thoughts of excellence and success always, then you will always exhibit that in the reality.
How far can you see? What you see(visualize) is what you will end up achieving. This id because, the only limitation you have is your vision.

3. Read books written by excellent minds.
To be successful is far beyond just wishing. It involve doing the extra-ordinaries. This can be achieved by ensuring you look forward to others who are experts in your chosen careers. Make them your mentors. Buy and read their books and get yourself well equipped for a better you.

When you read the books written by these people, you will begin to rub mind with them, you will start thinking the way they think, act the way they act. These people have been there, they should be able to tell you how to get there. Reading according to research affects your thinking, and your thought directly or indirectly affects your performance. So, when you don't read excellent books how will you have excellent thoughts. Readers are leaders, committed ones are great leaders.

4 Identify your key area of optimum performance.
You should be able to identify an area that you can perform to your best ability and be a higher flyer. The worst thing that can happen to any man is living a purposeless and directionless life.

It doesn't matter how and where you were born or where you are right now. In fact, somebody might be responsible for where you are today, but you are responsible for remaining there. Stand up and think big. For the seeds of excellence and greatness are in you.

YOU WERE BORN FOR THE TOP.
NEVER ALLOW ANYTHING OR ANYONE MAKE YOU FEEL OR BELIEVE THAT YOUR FAMILY BACKGROUNDS CAN DETERMINE YOUR DESTINY.

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