Wealthsecrets: Always Strive for Excellence

Some folks are okay with average performance, which ultimately produces average results. Some strive for something higher, and obtain better results. In business, work, school or whatever endeavour one engages in, the key to great achievement is in a focused striving for excellence.

You have got to make sacrifices, put in extra effort, work longer hours all in a bid to excel. There is no shortcut to life as most people believe just like you cannot get something for nothing.

By this I mean is you cannot just sit down without doing any meaning work and expect to achieve results or your heart’s desire. There must be a conscious effort in undertaking some meaningful activity geared towards your goal in life.

Since we are now clear on this, it then means that striving for excellence should be the focus of the person who wants to obtain true wealth. So how do you strive for excellence?

We strive for excellence by careful preparation. Research has shown that most projects failure at planning stage. Therefore, there must be careful planning or a road map for the person who strives for excellence in a chosen task or goal. This helps one undertake an analysis and research into the goal, obtaining valuable information on the pros and cons of the task and what to do to achieve it.

We also strive for excellence by a review of the task after a period of undertaking it for a while, say every quarter or every six months. The objective here is to compare notes between the planning stage or road map and actual execution of the task to see areas of possible improvement. There will always be areas of possible improvement if we are sincere to ourselves and are always ready to get the best results.

We also strive for excellence when we sincerely listen to what others or specifically what clients have to say about our products or service. This gives us a wider perspective and helps us to see things from the client’s view point and make sure to implement the ones that would give the results we desire.

We also strive for excellence when we listen to what our staff say. As an employer of labour for instance, you cannot claim to have monopoly of knowledge. Your customer facing staff deal with and interact with customers on a daily basis during the work week. They therefore also have firsthand knowledge of their work challenges, the customer’s challenges and can suggest ways of improving them.

It is important to note here that it is not all customers who will want to later discuss an issue they have mentioned earlier in front of a customer facing staff. It is that staff who is in position to relay the message and the person or organisation striving for excellence would do well to listen and implement the suggestions given if they are focused on achieving results.

As simple as all these look, it takes patience and a lot of discipline to implement them. However, the person or organisation that takes this cardinal point as their rule is sure on the path to excellence and true wealth.