Journey to Excellence...

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 here is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and  that's your own self"     -Aldous Huxley.

There are various things we set out to achieve our destination in life.  Excellence is a never ending process which means constant improvement in one’s performance and therefore we must understand that we need to make the journey supreme and not destination. When we try to perfect the process of performance and don’t think about the results we don’t allow the pressure of the results to clog our performance. While moving ahead on the way to excellence one also need to keep a constant check of the way they are opting for; we have to be aware of the fact whether the way leads us to the right direction or not. Most of the time in life we loose because we do not strive as good as we can, one must try to give every moment their 100%, every means, every moment of your life be it profession, relationships, health or any thing…… and then you yourself would be able to see the difference between Good and Great. While talking about giving our best I also can not ignore the fact that many a times even if we give our best we don’t get the expected results, but the difference in this fall down would be…… You would pat your own back and would say “You did well buddy, but let’s try harder next time and bounce back in the game”.

When we loose we seek excuses, I lost because I didn’t prepare well and bulk of other excuses, always remember excellence never seeks excuses and that’s why I love something in the statement of Ralph Marston: "Excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude.”……   and that is ‘attitude’. . Everyone should posses “let me try and see what will happen, attitude”.

Every great example makes an incalculable influence on us, they work more forcibly on the mind than percepts therefore we must seek people who are better than us. Many a times once we reach at certain level, we start feeling insecure and surround our self with people who are lesser than us and the moment we do that, we stop growing, so for that selfish reason, one must look for people who are better than them, in fact those who are excellent in their field, at the same time we must not create a barrier around us for all those who are lesser than us, every person in this world is a ‘Feldspar’, we must try to learn good aspects from them and filter out their negative aspects or the things which are not relevant for us.

I would like to put some light on criticism also; a lot of people don’t like it whether it is about them or their work. I don’t really understand why.., in fact one must be thankful to them that they are there to critically analyze your work. I always find myself lucky that people are there in my life to criticize me, otherwise I would have been living in rarified bubbles, remember you would find many, in fact 99% people who would talk about your positives or good things, but very few who would criticize your work or would be there to stop you from moving towards the ditch of wrong direction.

We must keep a track of how fast others are moving ahead in their life, but never try to imitate them while competing so that we get time to learn from our mistakes and many small things that others usually do not take care of and then raise your standards. I am not saying all these things because I don’t want to compete but because I look at things in a different way; I believe in adding value to who ever I work with. I try to make others feel as comfortable as possible because if they would be comfortable they would perform their best and only then they will want to work with me, if they would feel insecure because they are scared that I would scream at them then neither they nor I will perform well.

Another very important thing is your desire and passion to work and rise in life; if you really want to be successful you must be willing to do things that would make you successful, come out of your safety zones and bring the spirit of facing the challenges in your life, so every time it has to be You Vs. Challenge and believe you me, that would make things very exciting for you. Your performance is the only way via which you can tell others how good you are, besides doing a lot of pep talking about yourself. I have seen people criticizing Sachin Tendulkar for his bad performances through out his career by the time, but I have never seen Sachin replying them via his diplomatic statements but via his improved performances everytime.

We usually forget we need to maximize what we are doing right now besides wasting our time in thinking about what people say, about the past and future.

Grow as a human being than just in your own profession, help those who really need it and keep faith in God.

Just believe that you can do wonders and you surely can..!

Good Luck & Keep Smiling..! J