{"id":2419,"date":"2010-07-19T04:39:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T10:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2010-07-18T20:24:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T02:24:52","slug":"dare-to-be-excellent-at-everything-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/dare-to-be-excellent-at-everything-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Dare to be Excellent at Everything You Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"You would think that with all the technology available to us, all the systems that allow for cheap entry into different spaces, that excellence would be on the rise.\u00a0 But oddly enough, it seems the opposite is true.\u00a0 How many times have you gone to a restaurant that claims to be excellent at least according the to the prices they charge,\u00a0 and yet the food and service is barely mediocre?\u00a0 Mediocrity reigns in corporate board rooms, in church leadership, and in families.\u00a0 And we all suffer because of it.<\/p>\n

I want to dare you to be excellent by giving you a workable definition.\u00a0 I think we\u2019ve mistaken excellence for something unattainable, more like perfection than what might reside within the reach of the average man or woman.<\/p>\n

You can define excellence this way, and it\u2019s achievable to anyone who wants it.\u00a0 Here it is.\u00a0 Excellence is doing the best I can with what I have where I am in the time allotted. <\/strong> When I realized that, everything began to change.<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago my family and I moved to Nashville to start a church directed toward people who didn\u2019t want to go to church.\u00a0 No money, no support, a rented, run-down school building: not much about what we looked like or sounded like when we started was excellent.<\/p>\n

As we began to persevere and grow, I realized that there were a lot of things that people would put up with if they knew and were convinced that we were doing the best we could do with what we had, where we were, in the time allotted.\u00a0 That definition makes excellence available to anyone who wants it badly enough.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the end of the day, you won\u2019t be remembered for how much you earned, or how much you bought, or how many people attended your church.\u00a0 You’ll be remembered by the quality of your life and the service you offered.\u00a0 Let it be excellence and nothing less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You would think that with all the technology available to us, all the systems that allow for cheap entry into different spaces, that excellence would be on the rise.\u00a0 But oddly enough, it seems the opposite is true.\u00a0 How many times have you gone to a restaurant that claims to be excellent at least according … Continue reading “Dare to be Excellent at Everything You Do”<\/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":[17,14],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419"}],"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=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}