(No More) Mediocre Me

our attitude is either one of our greatest strengths or one of our most significant weaknesses;

What’s important isn’t our current title, but how we choose to use our personal influence to add tangible value to our surroundings;

world in which we live is largely of our own making. We are, by the choices we routinely make, the primary architects of our realities.

when something becomes commonplace, we have a tendency to neglect it or just plain look past it. It’s so obvious it’s almost as if we develop a blind spot of sorts to the value, beauty, or wisdom present right in front of us.

the person who has the greatest influence on what you do and become is you. How you perceive your ability to promote positive change determines if you act the part of the victim or the victor. Your impact, your legacy, will ultimately be measured by the choices you did or did not make in life.

people will not change their situations until the pain of the present outweighs the fear of the future.”

mediocrity happens when people refuse to change and improve all that they do. Excellence, on the other hand, occurs when you willfully try to leave everything you touch better than you found it.

every action we take to improve conditions in our surroundings, no matter how small, is a devastating blow to mediocrity and an empowering victory for excellence.

Taken together, these elements reveal how easy it is for:

•Fear to drive us into the box;

•Our ego to keep us in the box;

•A sense of entitlement to lull us into being comfortable staying in the box;

•Denial to convince us we are incapable of ever escaping the box (or that we need to!).

Hence, plunder is akin to taking something without having done any of the work to earn it. Such entitled thinking if left unchecked, kills motivation, erodes competition and undermines collaboration. It positions people to focus more on themselves than on serving those around them, perpetuating a dangerous state of affairs in which ego overshadows accountability; selfishness crowds our selflessness; and mediocrity becomes the norm.