Excelling By Being Your Best Self

Episode 26

 Excelling Being Your Best Self

🎯 The word best means to be of the highest quality, excellence, or standard - 1:15
🎯 Your best is the greatest effort or highest achievement or standard that you are capable of - 1:20
🎯 It is striving to reach your full potential in everything you do. Being your best involves setting the highest of standards for yourself, continually improving upon them, and working towards personal growth and development - 1:30
🎯 It's not about being perfect, but rather giving your absolute all to every task at hand - 01:48
🎯 Number one realize that you have in you everything you need to be the very best of yourself, which is maximizing your full potential - 2:10
🎯 What it takes to be the best in all you do is that you have God's DNA in you because the Bible says you were created in the image and likeness of God - 2:35
🎯 Number two, to be your best, you must be committed to doing your best, no matter who is looking and no matter how mundane, the task at hand is when you do your best in the things that seem insignificant - 3:14
🎯 To be your best, you must consistently set standards for yourself in every area of your life - 4:27
🎯 Number three, to be your best, you must live intentionally, living intentionally means living with values that help you accomplish your purpose - 4:56
🎯 To be your best, you must define your priorities and your goals. You are clear on what you want from life and you live each day in alignment with your priorities - 5:36
🎯 Living intentionally means thinking ahead and making choices based on your personal values, your beliefs, and your goals - 5:56
🎯 There is no shortcut to being your very best. It starts with a clear understanding of your purpose and passions - 7:25
🎯 Number four, to be your best, you must have a mindset of excellence - 7:43
🎯 Your mindset is the way you perceive yourself and the beliefs you hold about yourself. Your mindset determines your behavior, your outlook, and your mental attitude. The mindset of excellence sees possibilities even in the most challenging of circumstances - 7:56
🎯 Nick Saban said “Finally, your attitude is critical to success. Having a positive attitude can have a tremendous effect on how you react and respond to challenges, successes, and even failures, and attitude is directly affected by your expectations - 8:24
🎯 The truth is that you will never be your best if you do not see yourself in that light - 9:00
🎯 Number five, to be your best at what you are naturally good at, still requires effort and commitment - 9:08
🎯 You don't necessarily have to be naturally good at something to be your best at it, but you can be naturally good at something but not be your best at it - 9:17
🎯 The fact that you are naturally good at something should provide the drive and the determination to be the very best at it - 9:48
🎯 Number six, you must be committed to self-development - 10:47
🎯 To be your absolute best requires you to adopt the attitude of a lifelong learner and encourages you to recognize your strengths and take steps to improve your skills, employing them in creative ways for better results - 11:08
🎯 So if you had to be your best, to be the best of yourself, you must constantly learn new skills, reinvent yourself and be willing to do whatever it takes to excel at what it is you do - 11:32
🎯 A commitment to self-development is an investment in yourself - 12:23
🎯 To be the best in all you do requires the grace of God. The grace of God is the divine empowerment that blesses the work of your hands to make it to you the very best - 13:20
🎯 The grace of God becomes the icing on the cake that enables you to operate at your optimal best in all that you do - 14:03