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Carolyn Smagalski
Strategies for Success
Founder - Editor - Host
"Personal development is your springboard to personal
excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development
literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can
accomplish," says Brian Tracy.
The greater your sense of excellence becomes, the more
valuable you become. Excellence begins to reflect in your
surroundings and echoes from all sources. Your friends and
associates begin to recognize it, because consistent
excellence is a rare commodity. They begin to notice that you
constantly expand your knowledge base. The positive response
of your customers takes the pain out of the inevitable
glitches that occur in business. Their observation of your
own dedication to excellence assures them that you will
investigate how the error happened and set up new ways to
communicate future expectations to you staff. They take a
piece of you with them in their thoughts. This response to
your commitment to excellence makes you more valuable.
Denis Waitley writes, "The most splendid achievement of all is
the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of
your own approval." You are the one with the vision of what
you can achieve. Your commitment assures success.
It is sometimes difficult to keep walking down that path. You
feel like a captain on a long ocean voyage, with nothing but
water surrounding you - nothing but sky and clouds, water and
wind. No guarantees. No physical sign of land in the near
future. But you keep pushing on, because you are the one with
the chart. You believe that you have the ability and the
necessary tools and training to reach paradise.
With constancy, you push onward. There is no question that
you are right. You just need to keep going. With a
commitment to excellence, mediocrity is banished. At various
points, you will come across people who will sincerely say, “I
wanna’ be you,” or “When I grow up, I want to be like you.”
Accept the compliment, and remember it during your more
challenging moments.
Benedict Spinoza, 16th century philosopher wrote, "All things
excellent are as difficult as they are rare." Keep this in
mind. It is not unusual to feel overwhelmed. All great
accomplishments felt difficult to the ones who finally met
with success. Tenacity carried them through, along with their
sense of dedication to excellence.
Dedicate yourself to excellence. Take responsibility for it.
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