THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXCELLENCE AND MEDIOCRITY

Throughout my 24 years as a Business Coach, I have spent hundreds of hours working, socializing, and interviewing very successful people. They have many traits. They are persistent, if you knock them down, they bounce back, smile and start all over again. They take responsibility for their own lives and for their own results. If things don’t go quite as well as they would like, they don’t blame other people, or circumstances for their results. They never make excuses.

In addition to the above traits, they are always challenging themselves; they are always looking to expand their comfort zones. They take on extra challenges in their lives. My wife’s cousin came to the UK from Sicily, a year ago, not being able to speak English. During the last 12 months, he has learnt English, and now he has a job as an Architect in London. He will be successful in his life, of that I am sure.

Another major trait that they have is they are in the constant learning mode. There are two fundamental ways of reacting to tough business conditions, or a slump in the economy. One is to surrender, make excuses and carry on. The alternative is to acquire important know how to information, make changes, develop yourself and be a warrior. When faced with adversity, successful people re-double their efforts, they get help from their mentors, tutors, burn the midnight oil, they create, are persistent and demonstrate a pro-active nature.

Successful people constantly search for new ideas, new techniques and of course attend lots of courses to learn and seek out new ideas.

Roger Bannister, when training for the impossible four minute mile said ‘the man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win’.  History is of course testament to the results of his efforts.

In life, you will always reap what you sow,  there are only two choices, you can decide on being excellent, or being mediocre.  It is a choice, only you can decide