AHHHH! My favorite subject. My favorite word. I interact with people all day, I talk with them, I try to motivate them, inspire them and even try to recreate them and I have come to the conclusion that the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is indeed the little extra. There must be, “The willingness to always do more that is required of you.” quoted by George Patton. There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. But EXCELLENCE is not reserved for those who are in the spotlight, those we see in arenas, on stage on-screen. It’s more than the millionaires and the billionaires. EXCELLENCE is a way of life. It is how you go about things on a daily basis. Yes, talent will get you noticed in many areas, and hard work will move you forward. But Lowell Thomas says, “EXCELLENCE is doing a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” It is the more than you think you can do - that is where we will find the EXCELLENCE.
Do you want to be a person of EXCELLENCE? Treat people better than they expect to be treated. Do you want to be an EXCELLENT employer? Treat employees better than they ever thought of a boss treating them, and show them how to treat customers and clients better than any other company. Do you want to be an EXCELLENT employee? Give your company more than anyone has ever given in the position you are in. Do you want to be an EXCELLENT salesperson? Give you clients more value for the same amount of money. Do want to be a EXCELLENT husband? Love your wife a little more each day. Do you want to be an EXCELLENT wife? Support your husband a little more each day. Do you want to be an EXCELLENT parent? Spend a little more time with your kids and get involved more with their activities everyday. “Here is the simple but powerful rule….always give people more than they expect to get.” Nelson Boswell was right, and you see the pattern.
GIVE A LITTLE MORE! When you give more you go above the norm above average. The masses set the average. A little more is above average! Stop being satisfied with average when it only takes a little more effort to be above average. Thomas Edison said, “I start where the last man left off.” We all can do more than we have been giving and doing. We sometimes hold back. I ask why and what for? When it doesn’t take much to be more, why don’t we? If we start being, doing and giving more each day we would be on our way to becoming EXCELLENT. It is a state of mind. I believe this is how we pursue perfection. Orison Swett Marden was quoted many times on EXCELLENCE. I believe him when he says. “It is just a little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master’s fame.” (He was saying "a little more makes the difference.") He quoted later in his life, “Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality….that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you shall bear the hall-mark of EXCELLENCE.”

HERE’S MY POINT!

“To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way: to do some things better than they were ever done before: to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing less than perfection.” Marshall Field & Company

When you pursue perfection by way of EXCELLENCE, you will have SUCCESSNOW!

Let's Make a Difference, Make it Happen, Let’sGO!

- Travis