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Highly Effective People Strives For Excellence

Hello

I hope you enjoyed the last 2 special blog posts about Parentalk and Abuse. I felt it was important for me to use this platform to raise awareness on topics that could make a positive impact on future generations.

This week is back to talking about life, inspiration, motivation and ideas-this post was actually inspired by a rather dysfunctional event. Every day we have many distractions, which can keep us from our destiny if we chose to be consumed by it.  Our dreams has to be bigger than our current reality to cause us not to sweat the smaller stuff and that involves letting some things or people go. The difference between effective and not-effective people is how we chose to channel it. Below is how (after the initial annoyance) I done it.

Just to put this into context- the individual(s) concerns were unable to take accountability for their actions / errors, instead what I observed was a misuse of power and the slow demise of an outdated organisation.

Enjoy!

Striving for excellence does mean we have to humble ourselves to address our flaws…………………

In order to be a person of excellence personally and professionally we must first realise we are a work in progress. This usually means we are never going be the finished product, for example the brands that tends to have longevity are constantly evolving. Striving to be a better person than who you were yesterday fosters open communication between all stakeholders. Taking things personally or being a person that is easily offended, has a real cost attached to it. This includes stagnation as the saying goes the worst thing in life is not failure, it is being in the same place, year in year out and eventually dying out.

When you don’t face up to your shortcomings and use excuses to cover up flaw(s) it usually means you are surviving and not thriving. In management there is a saying that the worst thing you can say is ‘this is always how we done things around here’ and incidentally this is a way one ticket to no-where. Being precious over your status or job role stagnates progress and will have great difficulties in keeping up with the pace of change. When an organisation has a hierarchical and autocratic culture, it usually doesn’t attract the best candidates.

A dynamic workforce, always has a fighting chance even during tough periods, because new ideas means new ways of seeing and being.

I close with the quote below via twitter:

If your ego is in control, you will fail to listen and understand the other persons point of view.- @RichSimmondsZA via @KateNasser

Have a great week!

KIMI x

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