Why Being Excellent Is A HUGE Mistake

Quick one from me.

Don't be excellent, be diligent.

As soon as we strive to be excellent, it paralyses us.

Everything needs to be perfect.

Nothing is good enough, so we don't start.

So don't strive for excellence, strive for diligence.

Striving for diligence is striving to give continual effort.

Which is easy.

Effort doesn't need to be perfect it just needs to be attempted.

And continual effort is what gives birth to excellence.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

Striving for diligence leads to excellence but striving for excellence doesn't lead to diligence.

A.K.A

Stop trying to be perfect and just give it a go.

So many people "want" to do this and that but never do.

They say, "I'm going to do this" and "I'm going to do that" but they don't because they're so caught up on being excellent and not diligent.

You could also look at striving to be diligent as being process driven and striving to be excellent as being outcome driven.

The more you fall in love with the process, the more chance you have of being excellent at the process which will in turn give you an excellent result.

But if you strive for the excellent result straight away, you almost disregard the process and assume it just happens (which it doesn't).

It takes... diligence.

Diligence > Excellence.

So if you want to be excellent, move on.