EXCELLENCE IS NOT PERFECTION

EXCELLENCE IS NOT PERFECTION

Adesina Abegunde

Daniel 6:3 (AMP) 

³ Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

Hi beloved, I believe God that you are making efforts to be the best you can as the day goes by. In two months and two weeks’ time, this year will be gone and whatever you have become in quality is what you will carry over into next year. Your excellence and quality in your work this year will determine your promotion, progress, contract opportunity and so on next year, so be the best that you can be.

Many are discouraged about being excellent because they mistake excellence for perfection. Because there is one flaw or the other in your work does not mean you cannot become excellent. Somebody said “excellence is what we have when we reach out for perfection,” I agree perfectly with that statement. When you become man or woman that loves to give effort to perfectly do a thing you will become excellent, but note that if you are always waiting to do perfect things before you do anything, then you will never get anything done.

Excellence according to the WordWeb dictionary is, “The quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree.” Perfection is defined by the same dictionary as, “The state of being without a flaw or defect.” Excellence is developed overtime, by continuously doing things well, looking for ways to do the same thing better even if people said the last one you did was the best.

Excellent people are those who have consistently improved their weaknesses and failures overtime. Whatever anyone do excellently today, he or she must have done shabbily before. Don’t be fooled by the dexterity that people you admire have now, they never began like that.

A perfectionist mindset can delude you of improving and it can discourage people around you from freely improving over time. All you need to do is to know the good qualities that make whatever you do excellent and gradually master those things. For example, a fashion designer should know the good qualities that will make his or her work wow, such as the neatness in cutting, sowing, design, finishing, packaging and so on. Just find out what is required in whatever you do and then do it with your best effort.Know what is required in your office and do it excellently. Don’t be In a hurry to improve many things at a time, take it one by one or in similar groups.

Daniel knew what was required of him and he gave his best in a way no other person did. It was that excellence he displayed that qualified him for promotion, your today’s excellence is what determines your tomorrow’s promotion, because the Bible says “he who is faithful in little is faithful in much” (Luke 16:10).

Your season of elevation is here in Jesus name.

Your efforts to be excellent will speak for you and above it the grace of God will speak for you.

In this month your labour will be rewarded handsomely in Jesus name.

God bless you.