Excellence as a Lifestyle

Mediocrity is a choice

As humans, we make a lot of decisions every day, and one decision we can choose to start making right now is to make excellence a lifestyle. There’s a difference between being excellent at something—probably because you’re gifted in that area—and embodying excellence. This is when people know that if Mark picks up any task at all, he will never settle for less or miss the “mark”.

Embodying excellence doesn’t mean that you won’t make any mistakes at all, because perfection is almost unreachable with most things. And one thing about this life is: you can be great at something, but there is always someone out there better than you at it.

First of all, you need to stop doing the bare minimum like a mediocre person, ensuring instead that you put your all into what you do. The next step is to seek and be open to feedback. There’s a balance for those giving feedback, which I’ll cover in another post, but this helps a whole lot.

Let me be honest with you: I’d prefer someone not doing something at all, rather than them just doing it anyhow and not being open to feedback. Even the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 9:10a, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might.”

People in the Bible like Daniel, Joseph, and the Apostle Paul rose to the positions they were in not just because God was with them, but because they embodied excellence.

Finally, be careful of those who talk down on excellence, as you mostly become what or who you listen to. We can choose to put on Excellence as a garment today and see how a lot of things change.