Personal Excellence Means Commitment

Do you strive for personal excellence?

This is a subject that you must be careful of. From a personal growth perspective, it's a step-by-step process of bettering who you are.

However, in a spiritual sense, I believe you and I are already complete. You can read some of my thoughts on this in my spiritual growth area.

Today, I'd like to address personal excellence in the personal growth way.

One of the first things you must have is goals. It's hard to achieve excellence without knowing what it is you're going after. Without a sense of direction, it's easy to live life as a television viewer.

If you desire a life of abundance, though, it's going to come from turning off that "mind-numbing" TV box and actually doing something.

I feel a need to address this for a second based on a conversation I had with a friend the other day. He went out to talk with people about his business.

Here's his report: Almost everyone he saw was wasting away their Saturday watching TV! He said they looked like zombies just staring at the mindless drivel on the boob-tube.

Look, I like to watch TV once in awhile too, but the average American watches something like eight hours of it a day. I'm talking about personal excellence here. TV puts you in a sleep-like trance that saps all your "excellence" energy.

Just turning the thing off and picking up a book is the right step toward personal excellence. If you watch too much TV, give my rant some serious thought.

OK, enough of that... Just had to get that off my chest...

Sit down and develop your goals and dreams. This will provide you the drive you need to be a person who embodies personal excellence. Write this all down into a plan.

Read your goals and dreams everyday. Imprint them onto your mind.

Now comes the part most people struggle with: staying committed to doing something each day that furthers your goals and dreams.

Personal excellence to me is the ability to stay committed to daily improvement. Nothing of value is built in a day or a week. You need to lengthen your attention span. Allow yourself time to improve.

Thinking this way takes away a lot of stress. It relaxes you to know that once you know the goal you're striving for, it's now just a matter of time before it's accomplished. Each day, just do something that adds value to your plan.

Today, you may have time for something small. Tomorrow, you may have more time to accomplish a bigger part of your goal. The key to personal excellence is continuous progress. If you can stay focused without pressuring yourself to getting it all done in one day, you're on your way.

The bottom line is that personal excellence is a commitment. A commitment to daily activities that lead you to whatever end result you desire to experience. There's no need for stress. Just do one thing today.

And turn off that TV ;-)

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."
- Ralph Marston
Change your life,

Matt


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