Success Does Not Come From Doing The Extraordinary, It is By Doing The Ordinary With EXCELLENCE - PDL Insights (Part 22)
Success Does Not Come
From Doing The Extraordinary, It is By Doing The Ordinary With EXCELLENCE - PDL
Insights (Part 22)
An excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting
dreams, solving riddles, and explaining enigmas were found in this DanieL…., [Daniel
5:12 NKJV]
When I was nine, one school holiday we visited my
grandparents at the rural areas. Since I liked milk so much, one morning my
grandpa invited me to go with him to the kraal where all the milk I was
enjoying was coming from. He milked the cows and poured the milk in a bucket.
After an hour of milking and releasing the cattle for pasture, my grandpa asked
me if I wanted a cup of milk to enjoy before we went home. He gave me a cup so
that I could get the milk from the bucket that was under a tree near the kraal.
In my mind I always had a picture of the white fresh milk I would get from the
shops. When I looked on the surface of the milk in the bucket, there was a thin
fluffy cream top. I yelled to grandpa that the milk was dirty and he rushed to
see. He looked at me with a grin on his face and said, “this is cream my dear
grandson, it always rises to the top.” As I have grown up and been learning and
studying success and people who succeed in the Purpose and Driven Life, I have
discovered that in all areas of life there is one quality that always rise to
the top and carry with it those who have it. It is spelt, E.X.C.E.L.L.E.N.C.E.
Let us proceed in discussing some of the things that are
crucial in applying yourself to The Purpose Driven Life moving on from what we
last discussed about the work ethic. We saw that many people can get to the
place of self-discovery and yet still fail to fulfil their purposes or get to
the place where everything coincides for them to fully express their inner
convictions. Sometimes working hard and working smart is not enough. There is
an extra touch that is needed to excel in a system where some other people may
be doing the same as what we are doing. It is crucial in such instances to know
how to put the little extra that separates us from the crowd. It is the pursuit
of excellence in what we do that helps us rise to the top.
One insurance company in the United States of America as
reported by Brian Tracy in one of his Audio teachings, made a study on sales
that were happening in their company and discovered that 80% of their sales
were coming from 20% of their sales persons. Getting deeper with the figures
they discovered that the top 20% of the sales people were earning 16 times more
on average than the bottom 80%. Going further with the study on the top 20% of
the top 20% which is the top 4% of their sales persons, it was even interesting
as the average income of this top 4% was 32 times that of those in the bottom
80%. As this is not enough, going even deeper to look at the top 20% of the top
4% which is the top 0.8%, these had an average income that was 54 times that of
the bottom 80%. This meant that one person in the top 0.8% of these sales
people was getting an income that was more than that of 50 other sales people
in the bottom 80% put together.
These people were in the same field, selling the same
products in the same market but with so different earnings. What was the reason
for the great differences? It was their quality of their execution. The sales
procedures were relatively similar but the levels of excellence in execution
was different. This is not different in various facets of life be it business,
family, politics, media, entertainment, education and life in general. It is
also the case in The Purpose Driven Life. People who excel and rise to the top
are those who put extra effort to be excellent at what they do and those who
stay at the bottom do what they do to just get it done if ever they get things
done.
Why is it then that only very few people are committed to excellence
in what they do? It is because they have made the decision to do so. Why have
they made the decision to do so? In most cases it is not because of external
motivation of rewards, it is usually an intrinsic motivation that naturally
comes from the fact that they are doing things that they love doing. It is easy
to be excellent at something when it is something that you love doing. This
shows why it is on the path of the PDL that one is best positioned to be
excellent. There is inner motivation and inner drive in what we will be doing
hence one is fuelled to take the extra mile.
The deception in society is in seeing people who are at the
top of certain fields and have succeeded there and think that going there will
also make you successful. People have succeeded doing literally anything
because they were excellent at what they did. Cooks have become millionaires
because they were excellent at that. This explains why Jamie Oliver found his
way in higher offices and ended up advising political leaders on food
programmes. He excelled in cooking. People have made fortunes in general
cleaning because they became excellent at it. Look at how many people are
employed by NemChem in Zimbabwe. They excel in cleaning. Some have risen to the top of the society
scale by kicking and chasing animal skins inflated with air because they were
excellent at it and yet many play the same kind of sports and cannot even make
a living at it. Daniel found himself at the top of governance in a foreign land
and the first to be mentioned about what made him unique is excellence.
An excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting
dreams, solving riddles, and explaining enigmas were found in this DanieL….,
[Daniel 5:12 NKJV]
Which field will make you happy and successful? Do you think
with enough time and effort; you have the motivation to get to the top 10% of
the field or area or endeavour you are in? If you can’t picture yourself in the
top 10% then it’s the wrong field to pursue your success in. Your purpose is in
something that you feel from inside you can pursue and be excellent at and
there is internal motivation to excel in that field. What is it that you can be
excellent at? Pursue what you can be excellent at and you will find yourself
successful one day. Is the person you are in a relationship with someone whom
you can commit everything you have, to put a smile on their faces. If you are
not ready to be excellent in all your efforts in that relationship, then you
will not be the happiest person in that relationship.
Happiness comes when you are daily taking positive steps in
things that are congruent with the PDL and it is even abounding when you commit
to excellence and give excellence delivery of your service and see positive
results come out of your excellent service even before you get rewarded for it.
Rewards will inevitably come though; they may take long but they will
eventually come because the universe cannot resist rewarding excellency
forever. Like cream, excellency will always rise to the top and you cannot be
at the top of your PDL without it.
The secret of success
is not in chasing extraordinary dreams or doing extraordinary things that you
think are out of your reach but it is in doing the ordinary in an extraordinary
way – Coach Tarie: The Wisdom Garden (Volume 1)
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