Monday, 09 July 2018
In pursuit of excellence
Economic Times in The Speaking Tree |
India | ET
Excellence means doing your best at whatever
you do. Doing your best requires competence. But that competence doesn’t come
without effort. As Olympic swimming medallist Mark Spitz put it, “We all love
to win, but how many people love to train?” Excellence calls for discipline and
character. Excellence is enhancing your own abilities and competing with
yourself. It is about becoming passionate and enthusiastic about your work and
displaying the highest of standards at all times.
Ordinary people, when confronted with a challenge, ask, “Can I do it?”
Extraordinary people, who pursue excellence as a pattern, ask, “How can I do
it?” The difference between excellence and mediocrity is the power driving the
single word “how”, and that word is available to all of us at every moment.
Excellence is not an act but a habit. Many of us do things unconsciously most
of the time. So, once we form the habit of striving for excellence, it becomes
second nature, and we pursue excellence unconsciously.
People who strive for excellence are not fearful of change or challenges
but will make things happen despite all odds. Excellent people always do their
best and are impeccable about keeping their word.
In the corporate world, quality is often described as “free from
defects”. To us, quality also means providing customers with the products and
services they want, the way they want them —with no hassle and no errors.
Excellence means that we do all this to an extraordinary degree. So, when we
speak of quality, we are also speaking of excellence.
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.
Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
The pain –bearing, obstructions are ignorance, egoism, attachment ,
aversion and clinging to life.
These are the five pains, the fivefold tie that binds us down, of which ignorance
is the cause of all our misery. What else can make us miserable? The nature of
the soul is eternal bliss . what can make it sorrowful except ignorance , hallucination,
delusions. All pain of the Soul is simply delusion.
But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a
doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation
on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they
argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been
misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I
agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you
are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a
lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.
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