How to create excellence in all aspects of our life.
We will be covering both the definition of excellence as well as how to excel
72 Tips on how to create Excellence in various roles, areas and relationships in our life
- 1. Excellence requires having larger than life dreams
- 2. Then we break the big dreams till it gets translated into everyday measurable and "within our control small-small action steps"
- 3. These small actions steps have to be done with only excellence in mind
- 4. That is why Excellence requires passion and loving what we do
- 5. Our Big-picture acts as inspiration and motivators – although the focus is executing the next action step in the best possible way
- 6. Excellence Focuses on our strengths – and builds further on that
- 7. Excellence is a mindset of making a series of small improvements in everything that we do
- 8. Excellence happens when we enjoy the process of thinking, conceptualizing and trying out newer things and by experimenting
- 9. Excellence is always about making ourselves better – rather than comparing with others
- 10.In fact -excellence focused people feel happy for other's success, happiness and growth – in fact they get tremendous motivation from other people's success, happiness and growth
- 11.Excellence is about making stretching ourselves beyond our current capabilities and then if we fail and make mistake - then improvising it
- 12.Excellence is being humble and down to earth
- 13.Excellence is about Seeking other's help when we need it – without any shame
- 14.Excellence is also about learning from everyone – without ego
- 15.Excellence is about Accepting that Aiming for perfection means setting ourselves up for unhappiness and dissatisfaction – we can never be perfect, but all of us can always be better
- 16.In the Excellence framework – all the goals we are working at have to be ours – it is difficult to achieve higher levels of excellence working for other's dreams
- 17.Excellence is like running a marathon - It doesn't matter whether we finish first or last – as no one cannot take away our accomplishment of finishing till we did
- 18.If you notice tendency toward perfectionism in yourself — try the following
- A. Identify your thought patterns
- B. Challenge your belief towards that goal or objective
- C. Ask yourself whether this belief contribute to your well-being - or only gives you stress
- D. The ultimate antidote to perfectionism is self-acceptance
- E. It is letting go of strivings, regrets, and self-recrimination. It is about finishing each day and be done with it, with the feeling that you have done what you could
- 19.Excellence is about Giving our 100% - doing our Best at that time – all the time
- 20.Excellence Focuses on the actions, improvisation and execution
- 21.Excellence is constant learning from our Mistakes
- 22.Excellence Welcome Challenges – as it gives the thrills to overcome it
- 23.Excellence is Always about Giving More than is Expected - and enjoying this additional effort
- 24.Excellence is about doing what matters to us most
- 25.Excellence happens when we help others grow better than they could on their own and Making positive difference in the lives of others
- 26.Excellence is always about setting the bar higher each time – this increase in expectations from ourselves higher and higher - has to be pure fun and not at all stressful – if you are feeling stressed - some basics of excellence is surely missing
- 27.Excellence also Expecting the best from everyone around us
- 28.Excellence is also about Expecting the best from you as well
- 29.Excellence is about doing what is your highest payoff activity and delegating, simplifying or eliminating the low payoff ones
- 30.Excellence is about follow-through and Follow Up on all important actions, decisions and the things that deserves our attention
- 31.Excellence is also about creating a process to doing things right the first time
- 32.Excellence is about focused action and not about multi-tasking – although sometimes that too may be needed
- 33.Excellence never Never compromises with quality, discipline and our values
- 34.Excellence is about thorough Planning - to identify and create solutions in advance for all things that could go wrong - as per murphy's laws
- 35.Excellence is also about Taking care of ourselves first as a priority
- 36.Excellence is Learning from everyone, every failure, every mistake, every wrong decision
- 37.Excellence is Accepting what we don't know – and if that is essential - learning anyway possible from anyone and through any means
- 38. Excellence is about Seeking feedback from people who are your real well-wishers and be open to constructive criticism
- 39. Excellence also happens when we are leading at the front by being a role model
- 40. Excellence Takes calculated risks
- 41.Excellence is about doing what is the most imperative task - and delegate, eliminate and simplify what is not
- 42.Excellence happens when we stretch ourselves in all our passionate pursuits
- 43.Excellence is about upskilling, updating and being on the top of our domain
- 44.Taking breaks to relax and enjoy the journey
- 45.Volunteer for challenging tasks
- 46.Excellence is about taking complete ownership and being accountable for all our actions, attitudes and decisions
- 47.Understand that success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing part alone
- 48.Excellence needs us to Empower others
- 49.Excellence Refuses to be Mediocre
- 50.Ask yourself are you living a life of excellence
- A. Are you focused on being in excellent physical shape
- B. Are you focused on being in excellent financial shape
- C. Are you focused on having an excellent relationship
- D. Are you focused on being an excellent father, son, brother, husband, employee/sister, wife, mother
- E. Are you focused on being an excellent leader in every aspect of life
- F. Are you focused on delivering excellent performance in everything you do, in every aspect of your life
- G. Are you focused on being the best that you can be in your chosen career/profession
- 51.Be willing to do things differently
- 52.Always be flexible
- 53.Proactively seek and embrace change in every aspect of life, that qualitatively improves your life and gives you the pleasure and satisfaction
- 54.Get mentors
- 55.Choose to be in the company experts in your field
- 56.Practice, practice, and more practice, in the areas that you feel are needed and you need improvement
- 57.Practice discipline
- 58.Benchmark against the best
- 59.Learn from the best.
- 60.Create your bucket list
- 61.Let go of negative relationships and people, and surround yourself with positive people
- 62.Nurture those whom you love
- 63.Experiment with newer ways always, try something new everyday
- 64.Criticize less, appreciate more
- 65.Travel, meet new people
- 66.Observe and start listening for the meaning
- 67.Learn to handle your emotions
- 68.Volunteer for a cause
- 69.Build a Personal Learning Network
- 70.Forgive yourself for your past mistakes
- 71.Sharpen your creativity by using it everyday
- 72.Stand up for a cause
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