Manufacture Your Day by MAKING TIME FOR PERSONAL EXCELLENCE
Do you work in an environment where excellence is a clear expectation?
I grew up in a household where my parents reinforced certain rules over and over again:
- Be on time (= respect other people’s time)
- Look after the environment (put the garbage where it belongs, don’t idle the car, and clean up after yourself)
- Be polite at all times (say hello, please and thank you)
- Save energy (by turning off the light if you’re not in the room)
- Apologize if you did wrong to others (get over yourself and say “I am sorry”)
- Do your best in whatever you do
- Show initiative and challenge the status quo
- Smile more than you frown
- Take responsibility for your actions
Honestly, I grew up with so many rules in Austria, and especially my mom was pretty strict about having my brother and me live by these rules. As a child (and at times even as an adult) I tried to bend these rules as much as I could but today I know that this strict education for personal excellence has shaped me into who I am today.
What does this mean for you and the people at work?
If there are no rules or the rules are not reinforced, people will make their own rules.
It is mind-boggling for me to observe how people walk late into meetings, not even apologizing for being late – and nobody says anything. Some people even walk into the office in the morning without acknowledging the people around them and think this is o.k.
Is it true that everything we teach our children seems to have lost significance at work?
Shouldn’t there be standards for excellence? Standards define certain expectations that eventually determine the level of performance in both our personal and our professional life.
Time to wake up.
When have we stopped acknowledging that it pays off in life to be a good human being?
Food for Thought:
Have you set your standards for personal excellence?
I encourage you to read the following article:
10 Beliefs you Need for Personal Excellence
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