Strive for Excellence

...yes, Strive for Excellence and you will be glad you did!
I remember in my early days when I was still a child, I was in a class with one talented kid, she was so good in depicting certain things in drawing. I was amazed that at 8, she was so good in this art. She could look at something and draw it almost to perfection! However, one thing was an issue with this talented soul, she would keep her drawings and no one got to see them, I could only get a glance because we shared a desk. I tried to talk her into letting her drawings be seen but she could always say that she was not that good! I wondered what she used to gauge her excellence on this matter if no one had seen her work yet. I was fortunate to study in the same class with her till the eight grade or standard eight. I never saw her draw again!
What happened to that talent?

To be excellent, we need to identify whatever our talent is. We need to realize that whatever God has gifted us with is not meant as an impediment but something to compliment our life. This talent is not meant to be kept but to be explored and not only explored but nurtured to perfection. When nurtured to perfection, we become excellent and this becomes an eternal friend to encourage and support us. Before this unfolds, we have to set it free, to let it wander and be ready to be tuned!

But then remember that, to succeed you have to know yourself, when you know yourself, you can then help others to succeed by encouraging or mentoring them.This way, Excellence is then achieved at all levels. Most of us fail not because we can not do it but because we believe we can never do it, we look at others and compare them to us, we make it look like that we are the victims and life is unfair to us. Another group of us is the one that actually get into doing something but decide on a comfort zone which we cannot surpass, we believe that excellence is a destination and we forget that it is a journey just as life is a journey!

If you win or lose and your still keep going, then excellence is indeed your portion. Successful people are those who surpassed the point of average and walked on to excellence!