Most people like excellence, they desire to conquer But if you don’t practice excellently will it be fair for you to conquer excellence? Can someone desire to have a huge and amazing house, if they can’t take care of their own room? Wouldn’t it be ironic for you to want a higher job position if you don’t give the bestwhere you are right now?
After all, why does someone need to have excellence? What provokes excellence and what are their consequences? If the eyes of your leader were on you one hundred percent of the time would you job be excellent enough for him to promote you?
Just to begging, know that excellence can’t be in a simple act, but it needs to be a habit in everything that you do. How many people have you meet that were excellent one time or the other, but that you never seen go forward. Calculated acts of excellence doesn’t mean that the person is excellent.
“So Leandro, where does the starting point come from to begging excellence? Why is that also important? ” Because it doesn’t matter if I explain that seventy percent of all businesses lose their clients because of bad treatment, because they attendant without excellence.
I can’t explain that if I don’t explain what is true excellence. Until the moment you hire, you need to know if the person is excellent. An excellent person does not mean that they are capable.
A smart company should offer an Improvements Training inside the culture and the vision which the company offers. But if the person does not have excellence in their nature, in everything they do, even if they are smart, their job will be poor and regular. Excellence is the nonconformity with what’s good.
It’s what takes you out of comfort. It’s the opposite of accommodation. It’s what makes you angry about what’s predictable.
It’s what gives you pressure. It’s not giving excuses. It’s being restless until there is improvement.
It’s searching for perfection. It’s getting tired of the blah blah blah. Excellence is to position yourself as brave.
It’s to desire to make your time count. It’s to want to make a difference. The truth is that excellence gives you unforgettable victories.
Outstanding records that will remain forever in your life. Real growth begins in excellence. If everything is going good it’s because you are swimming on the shore, treasures are only found in deep waters.
Leave the shore, leave the place where you feel safe. Go further. Excellence breaks the limits in your mind and advances to deeper limits.
That’s where you will find new ways and discover the best treasures. What can you reflect with that? That excellence is not connected to what you’re going to do, but rather how are you going to do it?
That serves you as you serve coffee, for you to take care of a garden, to a make a presentation, to improve in your job, in your relationship, in everything being excellent is extremely important and efficient. That’s what gives the spark in what’s different, that’s what makes whatever is common to something extraordinary. For you to organize your room, organize your life, for you to have a relationship with someone, everything is called for excellence.
If you are not excellent, you will be just another person, and “Just another person” is never remembered. Do you remember the 5th placement of the last Brazilian soccer tournament? Do you remember the 4º th placement for the team in the company which you work for?
As rankings or salesman, it doesn’t matter, but do you remember? You hardly remember. But you probably remember the first one.
But you need to understand. “Ohh but Leandro, I can’t be excellent in somethings” So you need to duplicate your strength, duplicate your intensity. The difference between the ordinary to the extraordinary is a word extra!
Extra means to give more, do more, go more. For Pele to be the best of all times, he had to stay after hours, training and kicking with one leg, than the other. For Michael Jordan to be the best of all times he had to train after hours too, he wasn’t worried about the club rules about the time they closed.
He want worried about the extra hours, he was worried about being extraordinary. And that is being an excellent person, that is marking the time, that is making the difference. Excellence is putting intensity in everything you do excellence is overcoming expectancies that people put on you or something they expect you to do.
“So Leandro, how do I begging with excellence? ” Excellence begins in your habits. Excellence is not from the outside in, it’s from inside out Are you excellent in your personal planning?
Do you know where you want to get in 5 years? Do you know how to plan everything you desire? An excellent person visualizes the end, than she traced the way, than she creates the bridge, after they know everything they have to do to conquer what she wants and desires.
They don’t lose time, they don’t lose focus with immature things, with things that take you nowhere, they are excellent, and they know where they want to get. They know when to react and when to wait. But whatever it’s on the hands of an excellent person always prospers.
The person that is not excellent, you can put gold in their hands they will lose it all. They will transform to nothing, and nothing will flow. Who is not excellent will destroy what’s good.
Listen to me, richness does not generate excellence, but excellence generates richness. You need from now on decide to be excellent. And excellence is not connected to your calculated actions but your spontaneous actions.
Excellence is knowing how to use the intensity of your wordsat the right time. Excellence is knowing when to determine to use strength and when to use intelligence. Both of them are very important but at the right time.
Therefore, pay attention to what I will say: It does not matter what you do, how much you make, if you go to a street, or if you are the director of some big company. For me that doesn’t matter, but are you excellent at what you do? There is a story that I even told in another video that’s very popular, where it shows two employees, one that was older, that worked 10 years for the company and a new one that just got in, was working for 6 months.
Than one day the older one walked into his job and saw the guy that worked for 6 months be promoted. He got very angry and knocked at his bosses office door, the Boss said come in, and when he walks in he says: Look, I don’t understand, I am 10 years in the company, and Richard in 6 months was promoted before me? The very smart boss said: Peter, I’m happy you came here, I need to buy some fruits to serve to all employees after lunch, I was thinking about buying an orange, I was thinking about something sweet to give them after lunch.
Can you go to the market and see if they have fruits for me to serve for the employees? He didn’t really understand, but he said: Ok fine, I’ll go. So Peter went there, than five minutes later Peter came back, went to his boss and said: Boss, I went there and they don’t have oranges, the Market doesn’t have oranges, anyways, they don’t have any.
So the boss said: Alright, just wait a second. And he called Richards office, the new employee that just got promoted and said: Can you come to my office? Richard said yes and got in the office.
In that moment the boss said the same thing he to Richard as he had said to Peter. Richard didn’t take five minutes, he took 20 minutes. Than he comes back and says: Boss, I went to the market close by and they really don’t have oranges or anything, and the other fruits were pretty bad.
So I walked about three blocks and found another market with better fruits, I saw that they had oranges, so I went forward and negotiated the prices, and got them for a cheaper price. But I also saw the prices for other fruits in case you want, there are grapes for this price, and etc. If you want to buy all that I can also get us a discount for this many, what would you like?
The boss said: Alright Richard, thank you, I’ll think about it and if anything I’ll call you again. After Richard left the office the Boss turns to Peter and says: Peter, what did you tell me when you walked into the room? And Peter asked for forgiveness and left his bosses office .
You probably heard this story before but have you stopped to think about the intensity in this story? Have you stopped to think about if maybe you are one of these employees that does not do things with excellence? Have you stopped to think if maybe people ask you something and you do the basic, or you don’t even do it right?
Have you stopped to think if you have intensity in everything you do? The worse thing is for a boss to ask something for his employee and he delivers a poor job, he doesn’t do an excellent job. If he is not good with whatever he has in hands, would he deserve something better?
Reflect upon that, it’s something so simple! Excellent is what attracts excellence. If you are excellent than it’s just a matter of time before you grow, for you to be promoted, or at least people around you will see that you are excellent.
A careless person is conformed with anything, and whoever is conformed with anything, will get anything. Because they don’t know where they want to get. But a someone that has the profile of excellence, it’s natural for them to be upset with whatever is basic because they always search to do the best.
Another important things is, doing the best for your self means doing the best for others. People don’t understand that. “I didn’t do the best because it wasn’t for me!
” Understand that you serving with excellence means that you are an excellent person. That’s connected to you, not the other person. “Ohh no, but his winning, the boss is winning” Don’t think like that, only mavericks think like that.
An excellent person does the best for whoever is around, for another person, for whoever needs help. That one is excellent as a nature, and excellence comes back to them, understand that. Because excellence is confronting your self everyday in whatever you have already done.
It’s knowing that whatever you have conquered is better to be in the trash because better things are yet to come. Its for you to search for that with all you got. It’s wanting to be in first place, and if needed not even sleeping jut to organize the goals, its planning whatever you need to do to conquer that.
Because there is no bigger satisfaction than getting in first, for you to hit a record, to be recognize, to be promoted, but what proceeds all of these achievements is excellence. But a careless person is lazy. And many times they blame God for whatever they should have done.
But they hide behind their own incompetence on their religion. But if you look at the book, it says: “By the sweat of your face You will eat bread. ” And have you seen a lazy person sweat?
So don’t be a hypocrite with yourself, it’s not going to solve anything. God doesn’t like lazy people. If God is an excellent God, he liked excellent people.
Excellent people act with excellence. To close it up, if you are a leader and you don’t worry about excellence, pay attention to the numbers here: According to researches, 1% of clients give up in a business because of death. 3% because they change address.
5% because they got new habits and changed brands. 9% because the prices were too high, only 9% for you that like blaming the prices, only 9% because the price was not compatible to their buget. 14% because they got disappointed with the product.
Now listen to this: 68% almost 70% give up on a brand, or a business, lose their client, personal because of unsatisfying treatment, that means that the business that functions with employees are attending the clients without excellence. And that is why it’s lost almost 70% of clients for bad treatment. Therefore, if you want to have an excellent team, higher excellent people, walk with excellent people, and give an excellent training.
Disney is what it is because they have excellent employees, from a guy that cleans the streets to the guy who is selling popcorn inside Disney and the actors and everything, all of them work with extreme excellence. All of them know the vision and the culture of the company, the company gives the training, and they create excellent habits. So the consequences and benefits that excellence brings into your personal life is that everything you do will be prosperous , excellence generates excellence, and even more important, you will feel happy and fulfilled with whatever you do.
For a business, the excellence will give records, big numbers and outstanding growth, for the business and for the people who work there. On the other side, negligence will make you unsuccessful, doors will be close, loss of expectations and satisfaction from the contributors. So tell me, which side are you on?
Think about that, God bless.
