An Excellent Spirit: Here are steps to getting on the path of excellence

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Imagine what it would feel like to be recognized as the best graduating student of your school or employer of the year, or better yet, to be the very best in your field and everyone wants to be associated with you because of it? You would feel happy and fulfilled right?

Whichever may be your reply, it's very possible to achieve all that, but it comes with a price; which is "an excellent spirit". An excellent spirit, just like any other phrase has more than one definition. Over the years and through history, it has been given several definitions and meanings.

It could mean being outstanding, extraordinary, or doing things the very best way it could be done. Having an excellent spirit means living life above average, not mediocre, and becoming the best in every area of your life. 

Beyond definitions, having an excellent spirit cuts across every sector of our lives, from academics ( we all wanted to be the best, having that euphoria of being called outside to Receive prizes), to business, career, marriage, everyday living, and even little things like dressing and eating habits. We just want to be the best in everything we do among our peers and colleagues. 

Having an excellent spirit stands you out, you become a force to be reckoned with, you become relevant in your generation and even in the history of time. While we all wish for an excellent spirit, it doesn't come on a platter of gold, if wishes were horses even beggars would do anything to ride on one. 

Having an excellent spirit always starts with being dissatisfied with your present level, being determined, taking deliberate steps, experiencing growth and development in every area of your life.

Keys to having an excellent spirit 

1. DETERMINATION: Every battle is first won in the mind, the Battle against mediocrity is no exception. You must first have a positive mind towards having an excellent spirit, a quote says "what you can't conceive, you can never achieve".

Position your mind to not just living but living excellently. Be determined in your mind/heart to live above the average. 

2. KNOWLEDGE: Another way to renew and transform your mind which changes your life is having the right knowledge.

By all means, Strive for knowledge, read books, go to seminars, take courses, travel. Expose your mind to knowledge. My people perish/destroyed for lack of knowledge so says the Bible. Lack of knowledge leads to destruction.

The kind of knowledge you have determines the kind of mindset you have which always affects the kind of life you live. Ignorance might be a killer, but what is worse than ignorance is the assumption of knowledge. It is thinking you know a thing but in an actual sense, you don't. You should go for knowledge!!! 

3. GO THE EXTRA MILE: We all have gifts, and talents but how far we can go and what we can achieve with those gifts is largely dependant on how far we are willing to go and what we are willing to sacrifice to sharpen our skills.

Being the best above others means doing what everybody isn't willing to do, paying the price others are not willing to pay.

When you do what others can't do, you get the result others can't get. Having an excellent spirit doesn't just come where our hands can reach, you must reach out and take an extra step to achieve it.

4. MENTORSHIP:  It is easier for a man to travel along if he follows someone already familiar with the road. Several people have thread and toured the path of excellence, submitting yourself to be tutored by those people makes your journey easier. 

An experience they say is the best teacher but it doesn't have to be your own experience, life Is too short to depend on your own experience alone. With the experience of a mentor, you easily overcome the same obstacles that were difficult for them.

They are several people who have achieved something in a particular area of life and even life generally, you should submit yourself to those people. Follow instructions and watch how the journey towards excellence becomes easier and shorter for you.

5. RELATIONSHIPS: Just like the popular saying ‘‘show me your friend and I'll tell you who you are’’. 

The kind of friendship/ relationship you keep greatly influences your behavior and attitude. Build relationships with people with an excellent spirit and with time you will have one.

The more you interact with the wise, the more you become wise, and the more you interact with the foolish, the more like them you become, so it's the same with people who have an excellent spirit.

6. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: An excellent spirit has everything to do with having a positive character. Character development and excellent spirit have a particular goal, which is becoming the best version of yourself.

Work on your character, build your integrity, honesty, and humility. What people say about you can either make or mar you. Remember, a good name is better than riches.

7. TAKE PRACTICAL STEPS:  This is the last but one of the most important keys to having an excellent life. Beyond believing and confessing, take practical steps and actions. Set goals( daily, weekly monthly, and yearly) in every area of your life. Get up, go out and make changes in your life deliberately.

Be the best you can be. You can have an excellent marriage, career, business, education. Dress not just with swag but with class and excellence. 

Constantly practice how to live excellently as it's a daily process. Grow daily no matter how little. We underrate little growth a lot but it's the little growth that ends up making a big difference.

 Life is a gift-giving to us once, live it to the fullest. Live your life excellently as possible. Make and break your records, challenge yourself and win over yourself.

EXCELLENCE IS NOT A SKILL, IT IS AN ATTITUDE ( Ralph Marston).

Have you achieved any milestones that made you proud of yourself? Let us know in the comment section.