Striving for Excellence In a World of Uncertainties

Striving for excellence in a world of Uncertainties

Attaining a position of relevance and significance in life is a universal desire. Everybody wants to succeed. Everybody wants to identify with only with successful men and achievers. No one ever desire to fail. Men who are success-driven in all endeavors are usually challenging and their lifestyles are very contagious. We hold them in high esteem not because of big ideas but their rare determination to go the extra mile with passion and excellence.

 Israel Disraeli (1834), a British literary historian and father of Benjamin Disraeli, a successful statesman affirms "...it is a wretched state to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us". 

Charles Swindoll had a strong distaste for mediocrity and average. He asserts, " Long enough have we settled for less than our best and convinced that achieving one's full potential is a goal worth striving for, that excellence is worth pursuing even if the most yawn and fewer sneer."

To strive is to put in an effort. Striving for excellence is therefore a diligent attempt to attain excellence. In a world filled with uncertainties, excellence is attained by being dogged and committed to one's course come what may. Though the endowments are divine, the nursing and building is human. This means much of the work lies in your ability to pay the price that success requires.

It is of importance to be committed to the desire for excellence. Let nothing deter you from your pathway towards this Nobel goal. Excellence commences with God, condenses in the individual and is consummated upon his environment: human, material, physical, spiritual, etc.

To attain excellence therefore, you must start by:

1. Recognizing the truth of excellence: It's hard work.  There is no success no matter the form that was gotten on the platter of convenience. 

2. Relocating from your present position: Faithfully make an honest evaluation of your present state, forgetting your past failures and freely remove the domain of fear,hesitation and pessimism to forcefully plunge into the realm of faith, hope and optimism.

3. Resolving to Stand Out: The desire to set a mark that'll make you remembered must be burning everyday, every time. The desire to stand out at all cost despite all odds is the fueling force that will determine the extent to which you'll reach. No matter how beautiful,skillful and compacted a car is, the fuel determines the extent to which it can reach. So Likewise, on the highway of success, your desire to succeed is your fuel which determines the extent to which you can go.

Steps:

According to Sir J. Reynolds, "Excellence is never granted a man, but as reward if labour". It however does not stop at that. Your place in the ladder of excellence is also a function of choices and decisions made petsonally or otherwise in the course of your life.

1. FIX A PURPOSE: Every achievement today starts in the mind of some men as a dream. A goal is a dream with a deadline. With goals, you are able to concentrate your effort and pungently direct your powers in a direction that will reward you with academic excellence beyond your wildest expectations.

B. Follow a Plan: A goal without a plan is well prepared for journey into an unknown country with neither guards nor roadmaps. Plans give directions to goals and focus to purpose. Plan to detail; make a 24 hour time table; include time for study, sleeping, cooking, laundry, rest, etc.

C. Faithful Pursuit: Idleness kills. It destroys. Get busy! Lay your hand in something. You either burn the midnight candle or fade into obscurity.

D. Full Persuasion: Forcing your way through to excellence remains the only option for a dogged person. " Never admit failure until you've made your last attempt. Never make your last attempt until you've succeeded "-Dr.E.L.Kramer

CONCLUSION:

Excellence is the royal road to satisfaction. Joy, and peace of mind. Never give up! In a world of uncertainty, you desire fuels the whole process! Yes you can!

KEY POINTS:

1. Everybody wants to succeed but not many are ready to face the task it requires.

2. In a world of uncertainty, your decision to succeed is as important as your desire. Desire with no action is like starting up a car and the accelerator is broken or damaged, you'll go nowhere. Committed action is required.

3. Resolve to Stand Out

4. Get busy. " Idleness is the dead sea that swallows all virtue." - Benjamin Franklin

5. Excellence begats Satisfaction.

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