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 Talks, Michael 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."