{"id":2382,"date":"2010-07-13T05:47:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T11:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2010-07-13T05:40:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T11:40:35","slug":"dave-rave-%e2%80%93-five-sure-signs-you%e2%80%99re-mediocre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/dave-rave-%e2%80%93-five-sure-signs-you%e2%80%99re-mediocre\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Rave \u2013 Five Sure Signs You\u2019re Mediocre"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"daverave\"I am overwhelmed, embarrassed, and just downright enraged by how much mediocrity I see around me.\u00a0 Not only mediocrity in products, but woeful mediocrity in service after the sale.<\/p>\n

Let me be quick to say, I don\u2019t think anyone is mediocre.\u00a0 Everyone has the capacity to be good if not great at something<\/strong>.\u00a0 My beef is that we\u2019ve just accepted it.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been raised in it.\u00a0 We\u2019re dripping in it, and we\u2019re all paying a price for it.<\/p>\n

So what is mediocre you might ask?\u00a0 Well, here are five sure signs you\u2019ve accepted mediocre<\/strong> as a standard for your life.<\/p>\n

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  1. You are mediocre if you\u2019re a chronic complainer.<\/strong> I don\u2019t mean you can\u2019t be observant and have an opinion.\u00a0 But if all you do is whine, moan and complain about the way things are, but make no effort to make the world a better place, you\u2019ve accepted mediocre.<\/li>\n
  2. You\u2019re mediocre if you jump from scheme to scheme trying to get rich quick.<\/strong> Mediocrity breeds in the heart that has a short attention span.\u00a0 Are you the kind of person who jumps from thing to thing, relationship to relationship, job to job?\u00a0 It takes time to get good at anything.\u00a0 As Malcolm Gladwell says in his book Outliers, it takes 10,000 hours to truly become great at any endeavor.<\/li>\n
  3. You\u2019ve embraced mediocrity if you shift responsibility for your life to anyone other than yourself. <\/strong>Mediocrity loves to play the victim.\u00a0 It loves to shift responsibility for the life your life is on the economy, the company, or the government.\u00a0 People who get up and excel at their lives take responsibility.<\/li>\n
  4. You embrace mediocrity if you become sloppy and dirty.<\/strong> I know a public figure who is wildly successful.\u00a0 I know him very well.\u00a0 If I were to say his name you would know him right off.\u00a0 I won\u2019t say his name because I\u2019ve observed something about him.\u00a0 Everything he does reflects excellence to his business, to his environment, to his home, to his cars, to the way he treats people, to the way he dresses.\u00a0 Excellence seeps into everything, evidenced by the fact that he\u2019s neat and clean in all of his environments.Mediocre people are comfortable in filth and dirt and a chaotic environment.<\/li>\n
  5. You\u2019ve accepted mediocre of you have no written plan for the future.<\/strong> I see it all the time in marriages.\u00a0 They have no reason to be together other than they\u2019ve always been together.\u00a0 They see their marriage as a business contract, and a lousy one at that.\u00a0 People, marriages, businesses, great companies, those who excel, those who have a written down plan, a goal worth going for, what I call a BSAD – a Big Scary Audacious Dream.\u00a0 Without one, you won\u2019t push yourself to high levels of excellence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now that you\u2019ve taken my little test, how would you rate yourself?\u00a0 And if you\u2019re falling short of your own ideal, what are you going to do about it? Because you can, you know, you can become excellent the moment you choose to, and do something about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I am overwhelmed, embarrassed, and just downright enraged by how much mediocrity I see around me.\u00a0 Not only mediocrity in products, but woeful mediocrity in service after the sale. Let me be quick to say, I don\u2019t think anyone is mediocre.\u00a0 Everyone has the capacity to be good if not great at something.\u00a0 My beef … Continue reading “Dave Rave \u2013 Five Sure Signs You\u2019re Mediocre”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}