“Excellence is not a skill, it’s an attitude.”
Ralph Marston
How do you define excellence? Doesn’t the way you define excellence, and your commitment to it, define your attitude? Does that attitude inspire others with your vision of excellence and engender the same ideals in themselves?
What does it mean to you if someone were to describe you as having an “attitude of excellence?” Does that reflect who you are and what you believe?
“Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.”
Ralph Marston
How do you know when you need to rest? Do you know the signs? Sometimes it is hard to recognize in ourselves, but the people around us certainly know, and will tell us if we are willing to listen.
Similarly, how do you know that you need to reboot your computer? For me (as an Apple guy) I will go a week or two at a time and then perhaps things start to slow down. It will take just a bit longer for the computer to respond when I click something. Then perhaps I can’t change applications as quickly. Whenever this happens I know I need to simply close my apps and click restart and within a minute or so I am back in business.
The principle is the same with people though I sometimes, okay all the time, wish that my reboot process was as simple and fast as my computer. But it isn’t because our operating system is a lot more complicated and the demands on our lives a lot more severe. Taking the time do an appropriate system reset is what allows our minds and bodies to start fresh, and get back to work.
Don’t shortchange your reboot cycle, you won’t be nearly as effective and impactful. If you want to make a difference and serve others you have to take of yourself as well.