What?s Your Excellence Capacity?: Manage Your Time and Projects With Excellence
“I’m trying my best.? “I’ll try.? “No one is perfect, I’ll do the best I can.? “I did my best, and you did not even appreciate it.? How many times have you heard these phrases? This article provides tangible strategies to help overcome these characteristics and expand your excellence capacity.
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What is Your
Excellence Capacity . . . and How Long Does it Take you to Reach Excellence?: Manage Your Time and Projects With Excellence
The
title for this article was birthed by working on numerous projects with various
support resources who I have watched struggle to reach excellence. After much observation, pointing out a
plethora of typos, grammar errors, technical oversights, etc., I realized
individuals typically fall into two camps.
Camp #1 Characteristics
- Strive
(extremely hard) to be excellent - Take
a lot of energy, effort, re-doing, re-checking - Your
world is typically chaotic, but somehow everything gets done even if you
deprive yourself of sleep, exercise, and proper eating habits.
When
you fall into Camp #1 you say things like, “I’m trying my best.? ”I’ll try.? ”No one is perfect, I’ll do the best I can.? ”I did my best, and you did not even
appreciate it.? “I was going to and
_____________ (fill in the blank with this happened, that happened, another
person needed something, an emergency occurred).?
If
these characteristics and statements are true for you, here are some tips to
help expand your excellence capacity.
1)
Focus
on small projects one at a time.
2)
Manage
your time well.
3)
Be
a hound about not over committing yourself.
4)
Improve
your processes and systems to allow you to be as efficient as possible.
5)
Set
boundaries religiously. Why do I
strongly suggest this? Because we know
one cog in the wheel or out of its place can throw you off or set you back for
days, and cause you to make countless errors and numerous redos.
Camp #2 Characteristics
- Reach
excellence almost effortlessly - Second
nature for you to reach excellence
If
Camp #2 characteristics are true for you, you are an excellent organizer,
planner, project manager, and manage your time effectively. You always seem to have room in your life for
other people and their dreams, projects, and ministry. You never look busy . . . although you look
like you are accomplishing a lot to the average person. You say this and feel like, “Oh, I’m so far
from where He’s calling me to be though.?
You
don’t even think about churning out high quality, mistake-free work. You don’t try . . . you do it. If you can’t do it, you won’t take it on. You maximize every moment of the day. You rise early and have completed more
between 5:00 and 8:00 am than most people complete all day. Your capacity for excellence is large and
propels you forward.
You
don’t have people who are whiners and time wasters hanging around. Everyone around you is self-sufficient in
Christ. They are not constantly pulling,
tugging, and demanding your time. They
are dependent on Him, not you.
Your
world is rich, full of life, vibrant, and peaceful. You get the proper amount of rest, exercise,
eat well, and have plenty of time to spend with God and others.
If you
are like me, having spent time in ministry, you’ve noticed there is much talk
about “the spirit of excellence.? First
Corinthians 13 is the epitome of excellence revealing to us that moving in
excellence is moving in love. Let’s not
forget this as we prepare to minister to God and His people via any form of the
worshiping arts and scribal anointing (i.e., prophetic dance, writing, poetry,
banner making, instruction, maintaining records, preserving history,
administration).
If
these characteristics and statements are true for you, here are some tips to
help expand your excellence capacity.
1)
Keep
your eyes and ears open for new technology to further assist your efficiency
and productivity.
2)
Be
sure you are maximizing your present software to the fullest potential. If not, take a course to learn about powerful
features you may not be using that could help you tremendously. By the way, there are tons of technology
courses online. Just search for them.
3)
Constantly
purge the old. Get rid of things which
aren’t useful to walking in excellence.
This will also aid your already top notch organizational skills.
4)
Be
a hound about keeping a Holy Spirit led calendar. This way you are sure to continue to have
time for Him, others , and the things He wants you to take on.
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