New me?
There’s a moment that happens right after you finish something, a project, leading a meeting, pitching yourself and everyone says “That was amazing!”
And you welcome the praise but inside you’re thinking “It could’ve been better.”
That’s been me at some points this year. Can you relate?
People see our output and they see progress, but we’ve often felt the quiet regret of knowing we could’ve gone further, not for anyone else’s approval, but for our own sense of alignment.
What's lacking is excellence.
It’s not perfectionism, perfectionism is all about attaining an impossible level.
Excellence, on the other hand, is about intense self belief and next level progress.
That's what I want.
Excellence costs, a lot.
Not just emotionally, but physically, sometimes literally.
You end up paying more upfront. You’re spending more time, putting in more energy or even paying more money to make something happen.
And that doesn’t always mean the client or customer is charged more.
The service might stay the same price, but your cost to deliver it rises. That’s the part people don’t want to invest in. Excellence usually means the profit is less for a period of time because you’ve chosen to invest more than was required.
But that’s the whole point, excellence is an upfront investment rooted in belief. You trust that what you’re giving, will always come back multiplied, eventually.
And that’s exactly how we operate in this community and especially inside the Goal Action Accountability Group. We build from our Future Self.
We choose delayed gratification, knowing that what we invest now benefits who we’re becoming. Excellence and the Future Self concept are one and the same, both demand faith in what’s not yet visible and both guarantee the return will be worth it.
You put in more thought, more detail, more discipline than anyone asked you to.
Because no one requires you to be that good, you do.
On Monday, I was explaining to my assistant why I didn’t need to do something differently in my business, my logic was solid and she said “That’s fine, but it just sounds different from what you say about yourself.”
She's right.
But even though she was right, I wasn’t wrong, my point was still valid, but I wasn’t operating in excellence either.
Even what's true and good enough can block you from operating like your future self. And that’s the thing, excellence isn’t always about necessity, it’s about integrity.
It’s the decision to go the extra mile even when no one’s watching, because that’s the standard you’ve chosen for your life.
I read something years ago that said, “Your life has already started.”
It stuck with me. We think excellence belongs to some future version of ourselves, the one with more time, more help, more confidence.
But your life is happening now.
The standard you practice today is the standard you’re building your future on.
So lately, I’ve been reminding myself, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing with excellence. And because of that, I'm rethinking absolutely everything...
You know me, I'll share more and in-depth once I've conquered this but I'm so excited for what this means for my future self.
'Good enough' is my floor now, I need to touch a new ceiling.
Until next Sunday,
Dior xx
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