Excellence is a state, one that occurs when a person, team, organization, or community chooses to break out of the customary and usual way of doing things. It is always the result of choices made, choices to be different.
Excellence is never accidental. It springs from a deep aspiration for betterness. Excellence -- whether in individual athletic performance or international business success -- emerges on the heels of deep commitment, high attention, and extraordinary discipline. Never is it the result of dumb luck or a flip of a coin.
Excellence is not a permanent state. Even if achieved today, it can evaporate on us tomorrow. How in the world can that happen?
Excellent turns into Excellain't when we become satisfied and/or comfortable. When our state of mind changes from how-can-we-get-better to how-can-we-preserve-what-we-have, we have crossed that line. Good news: We can always turn around and cross the line in the other direction.
Excellent or Excellain't. We get to choose. And, tomorrow, we get to choose again.
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