The Power of Change reflects my perspective on what keeps us stuck in old belief systems or perceptions, stopping us from moving forward. With change comes the power to move through our fears, gain greater clarity, improve self-confidence, and make effective choices, thereby enhancing the quality of our lives.

Terry produces several newsletters each year to help you reach maximum empowerment. The Power of Change features ways you can become more fulfilled in your personal and professional life.

Power of Excellence

As I recently thought about my accomplishments last year, I asked myself four questions:

• How did these accomplishments serve me?
• How much effort and energy did I put into these accomplishments?
• Were the results mediocre or excellent?
• What could I have done differently to change the ordinary to extraordinary?

The one ingredient that turns the ordinary to extraordinary is a steady commitment to excellence. Career excellence requires that we constantly produce results beyond the ordinary, always pushing ourselves past our old limits. Looking at it another way, the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is commitment. Commitment to excellence creates a quality of life in which you thrive and grow, displacing beliefs that an average result is good enough.

As you ponder the questions above, what are your answers, and what could you have done differently that would have created a more positive outcome?

Take a moment to think through the two or three things that you truly wanted to accomplish in your professional life last year but didn’t. How would your career, job responsibilities or business decisions have shifted had you put more effort into creating excellent results? Perhaps you would have gotten the promotion that you were angling for, made that big sale that you envisioned happening or landed that one account that might have made a significant difference in your business.

The great philosopher Aristotle sums up what is required to achieve excellence:
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an art, but a habit.”

Assuming this is true, then you might wonder in what perspective you have been standing. How will you look toward the year ahead? What impact would this perspective have on making sure that your accomplishments truly serve you and your goals? What changes could you make right now that would shift your average performance to excellent? And more importantly, what are you doing that keeps you from creating extraordinary results?

The question is, are you willing to embrace and accept who you are right now, then step into your own excellence? You can take charge of your life and leave the ordinary in the dust! Often, just by changing your perspective, you can shift mediocrity to excellence, and step into the peak performer that is already within you.

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