The Very Essence of YOU

Personal excellence isn’t an external trait or quality that you can adopt. It doesn’t come from outside of you, it comes from within you. It IS YOU. Excellence is the very essence of who you are.
It is a process of discovering who you are and learning to be that person as effectively and sincerely as [...]

Motivation from Others

You can also seek motivation from others by reading about or observing those who strive for excellence in everything they do.
These people are easy to spot because they are usually very successful and motivated. They seem to have no shortage of energy and enthusiasm, and live their lives with a “can-do” attitude.
Watch these people, and [...]

Moving Out of the ‘Hood

Are you familiar with a little place called “Victim-hood”? It seems like an attractive place to live, at first glance. No one blames you for anything when you live in Victim-hood, and there are plenty of nice people to express sympathy for your troubles.
They don’t expect you to do much for yourself because after all, [...]

Motivating Others

Excellence is often contagious, and your commitment to excellence can motivate others in your life. This is especially true if you are a leader or coach, either in your personal or business life. If you strive for excellence, so will your team members or employees. Conversely, if you demand excellence from others but don’t strive [...]

Excellence as Motivation

Striving for excellence in everything you do can motivate you in amazing ways. Consider the difference between “doing something” and “doing something better than you’ve ever done it before”. Can you feel the difference in energy in those two examples?
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE ATTITUDE. If you want to feel motivated and inspired about anything, simply [...]

The Value of Integrity

Integrity is all about the values by which you live your life. A person of great character usually has a strong sense of integrity, while a person of negligible character has less (or no) integrity.
What are these values? For the purposes of this report, value is defined as “the relative worth or importance of something”. [...]

Never Settling for Less

Have you ever caught yourself settling for less? Perhaps you had a big goal in mind but you doubted your ability to achieve it, so you set your sights a little lower.I’m not referring to starting small and gradually increasing your goals as you go along. That’s actually a great way to build your confidence [...]

Character & Integrity

Two major components of your own personal excellence are character and integrity.
1. Character refers to the traits that determine who you are at a core level. 2. Integrity reveals the values you live your life by.
Character is often said to be “what you do when you think no one is [...]

Committing to Excellence

The important thing is to COMMIT to excellence with whatever you do. Don’t clean out the garage because you “have to”. Clean out the garage as if it were the most important thing you were doing that day. Clean it out as if a neat garage was of utmost importance in the grand scheme of [...]

Investing in Every Move You Make

One great way to increase your personal excellence is by choosing to see your effort as an INVESTMENT in the end result.
What is an investment? In a financial context, it is money we allocate (to a fund or program) with the intention to expand and grow it (with interest or other gains) so we get [...]