Making Quality Personal

MAKE QUALITY PERSONAL - Demonstrate a passion for excellence and take pride in the quality of everything you touch and everything you do. Have a healthy dislike for mediocrity. Good is not good enough. Always ask yourself, “Is this my best work?”

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Complacency, mediocrity, and average have been described as the enemy of excellence, but so has perfectionism.

We are not trying to gain control of other people or of all the circumstances or even all of the outcomes.

Those things will take care of themselves as you gain control of the only thing you can ever control—yourself.

You will get what you tolerate, and what you communicate

There is a proactive life lived with purpose.

While there may be hardships, losses, and even times of poor results in various areas, life lived this way has an intentional direction to it, even when bad things happen.

The person who lives like this feels empowered to live and exert positive energy to accomplish effects that are in line with who he is and what he wants.

As Heraclitus said more than two thousand years ago,

“Character is destiny.” Where we end up has a lot to do with who we are.