How would Bill Gates work or contribute to a weekend project or a charity commitment?
The same way Bill Gates would work or contribute to Microsoft or his foundation. Bill would bring a certain process or approach that has worked for him all these years. In truth, it is probably this process or approach that is at the heart of his extraordinary success.
And, yet, we often kid ourselves with beliefs that “If this were work, I would do this much better.” I heard this just this morning on a project I’m working on and I found myself nodding (as I thought it justified my rather poor performance of late) for a good 30 seconds before I realized I was kidding myself.
With anything we do, we have just one decision – to jump in or to stay away. Once we jump in, we bring our process to it. And, if it’s a small initiative where we are responsible for a lot, we probably see ourselves in true light for the first time as we lack the various support systems that we don’t notice in our own day jobs.
Excellence, as Aristotle astutely point out, is not an act. It’s a habit.
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