Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Faith and Learning 2014

Spoke at Faith and Learning today so I thought I'd pass on my outline on Excellence for posterity sake.

Excellence is . . .
An Attitude
Excellence Begins within yourself and comes from your interior attitude
A Behavior
The best description of excellence I recall is this “doing the little things well."
Contagious in Community
Excellence comes more easily when those around you are also pursuing excellence.
Shared vision and shared goals provide encouragement to one another
Hang out with people who make you a better person
Prov 27:12 A prudent man sees evil and hides himself,
The  naive proceed and pay the penalty.
Prov 27:17 Iron sharpens iron,
So one man sharpens another.
Prov 27:19 As in water face reflects face,
So the heart of man reflects man.
Difficult and Demanding
Others can provide external motivation by demanding and accepting nothing less than excellence
Excellence requires constant diligence and self-evaluation or assessment

Mediocrity on the other hand
Is Easy and requires no Effort
Is satisfied with Failure and Faults
Goes along with the Group


Throw in a couple of videos from Ted TalksMichael Jordan, and Tune Up Tip of the Week and a quote from Vince Lombardi and you've got the gist of it!

"Perfection is not attainable, but, if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."