Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
God rewards excellent work that is done diligently with the help of the Holy Spirit. This is to say that excellent work is a function of working closely with the Holy Spirit as some Biblical examples like Joseph, Daniel, Nehemiah, Bezalel and Oholiab as well as many others testify.
Excellence is a culture of consistent quality that is devoid of haste whether in thought, speech and actions. People who operate under a culture of excellence are not hasty. They are diligent, thorough, knowledgeable, analytical, careful, patient, dependent on God and strive above everything else to please God and not anyone. Please see Ephesians Chapter 6 verses 5 to 9.
Excellence speaks loudly through the quality of the finish, the quality of materials used, the close attention paid to details, the cut and design, and what have you. Excellence does not do things just for the sake of doing things; does not render service for the sake of rendering service but to bring out improvements, enhance the quality of lives of people, build to improve on what had been done before on products and services.
Unlike average, excellence always strives to give the best possible product or service which explains why the borders of excellence are elastic. Average on the other hand is content; in point of fact, more than content t just do enough to get by irrespective of what the final output is. Average is not bothered about quality whether the final output benefits people or not. Average is simply concerned with just getting by and does not pay attention to standards, quality or excellence in order to measure outputs. Interacting and living in a culture of average can be both damaging and very frustrating to anyone used to a culture of excellence because the culture of average waters down the culture of excellence and it is particularly pathetic because no matter how hard you try to get the culture of average to stretch its borders; it is not able to do so because it lacks the capacity to stretch its borders. This is not to say that it does not have the capacity or cannot develop the capacity to do so but the contentment which borders on complacency always makes it difficult for the culture of average to stretch its borders. The complacency is the reason that the culture of average appears to have no capacity to stretch its borders though the borders can become very elastic if given room to stretch. Unfortunately, average is always stuck and set in its ways and will attempt to think and work outside the box.
Attempting to impose the culture of excellence in an environment or culture of average is akin to carrying water from the stream in a basket, a sheer waste of time and other resources. It is laboring in vain, planting by the wayside, on stony ground and among thorns. Do not give yourself such pressures for what will not yield any harvest.
Rather, move to a culture of excellence and stretch your imagination to as much capacity as you can to produce and deliver excellent products and services. Do not allow the culture of average, just getting by with the routines that are not checked for quality control rub off on you. Also, do not bother to impose the culture of excellence on average because average opposes the divinely in built capacity to receive and process excellence. It just cannot work. It is akin to mixing cold water and oil; they cannot bond until you probably bring in a catalyst but at what cost.
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