¶ Inspiring Excellence Through Childhood Conversations
all right , All right . Welcome to another exciting episode of the Biblical Leadership Show . My name is Tim Lansford and I'm Dr Dean Posey .
We've got to say it Welcome , welcome , welcome .
I know I had like a calm introduction .
I know , was the coffee wearing off or what ? I'm serious and stuff what this week you know .
So you know . Hey , you know , last week we had a special guest in the studio and we did we had some awesome reviews come in and uh , so we invited her back this week and this is the famous who's in the studio with us .
Elisa Elisa .
So what's your relationship here to the people in the show , the Biblical Leadership Show ?
Well , Tim Lanceford's my dad , and Dean Posey was my preacher for a while .
There you go Well there you go . So this is just people that you know and that you hang out with and all that stuff , yeah .
Right before the show , we were talking about your favorite subjects at school and you got on the what was it called the list .
Principal's list .
Now , when I grew up principal's list , that was something you didn't want to be on . Yeah , principal's list . Now , when I grew up principal's list , that was something you didn't want to be on yeah , principal's list .
When you got on the principal's list in our time , that means you were bad . You were probably going to go get swatted with the big paddle .
Yeah , or have some serious time out . So we were on the principal's list .
You may have had the dumb hat or sit in the corner or something , or sit in the corner or something , or sit in the corner .
Write on that chalkboard a whole bunch of times . I won't be bad . I won't be bad .
I remember having to . If somebody had to write , I will not talk in class 50 times .
Oh , I will not chew gum .
What you could have done is write I won't chew gum and then do times 50 .
No you had to spell it out . And you had to sit in class , and if that meant you didn't get it done before recess , you just had to sit there and do it .
Different times and sometimes one person would do it and the whole class would have to write it , and oh , we were not happy about that , you know what's annoying Sometimes , like people forget to bring in their homework and one time I will not say their name , but one time someone didn't bring in their homework and they were like oh , my mom forgot to pack it
for me . I'm like dude that's your , and the teacher was like dude . That's your responsibility , well good , yeah , 100% .
That goes to what we were talking about last week about having integrity of speech .
Integrity , right , you can't blame it on somebody else . It's your job to get your homework in , so you pass right . So you made principles list and you were good and you had a lot of good times .
And we were talking about your favorite subjects and you said reading and math . Is there another ?
one . Yeah , okay , there's another one , and it's actually Bible study .
Okay , bible study , that's good , that's good . So we talk about the corporate stuff , we talk about biblical , but we also do dad jokes . So I got a dad joke for you . Okay , let's hear it . Since you like math , here we go . You ready , yep , why did the math book look so sad ?
I don't know why .
Because it had too many problems .
Because there's division , long division multiplication .
And there's like Fractions , division of fractions , multiplication of fractions . I don't know what that is . You haven't gotten that yet . You will .
There's a lot of it . There's a lot of math . And then there's algebra , algebra .
Oh my gosh .
And trigonometry and geometry .
Oh , geometry .
Yeah , there's also history .
There is history . There is history Really .
Yeah .
But history is also a good subject .
History is a good subject . Are you looking forward to the fourth grade ? Yeah , you think it's going to be the best year ever .
We learned division , dad oh okay , and long division .
You learned long division ? Yeah , without a calculator you had to do it by hand . That's so good . Good to learn it .
Yeah , Like , the teacher will kind of teach you more . The teacher will teach you and then you had to kind of you got to have it memorized , but she'll talk about it multiple times over the semester and bring it up .
What about like addition to subtraction ?
Yeah , that's something you see very commonly , like sometimes like division and subtraction . You'll hear a lot about that .
Well , that's such an important thing , because what happens if you get a job ? You know you're a teenager . You get a job at Brahms , chick-fil-a or something like that , and you have to make change . Someone gives you some money and you have to give them change . You have to know math .
Yeah , you have to learn a lot of math for that . You've got to take the amount that they gave you and minus it by how much they need back , and it would be great if you could do that without looking at the cash register . Right , yeah it would be , but sometimes people need to look at the cash register .
That's exactly right , and so many people now don't have cash .
They just charge it right , that's exactly right , so they don't have to worry about it .
They got tips and they got credit cards All you need .
That's it . That's exactly so . Do you remember the word of the day that we talked about ? Excellence , excellence .
Excellence .
Excellent that you remembered excellence .
Yes . So excellence for me is a quality of being outstanding or extremely good Doesn't mean you're perfect . There's a difference between perfection and excellence . Okay , but just trying to be outstanding or extremely good , yeah . And just think about here just in a few weeks we have the Olympics coming up in Paris and those people strive for excellence .
They've been working since they were young to be at the Olympics .
Like some gymnasts , start when they were three and sometimes they'll get into the Olympics .
Yes , they will , and the same is true with swimmers or runners . Some people have a natural talent for those things and they're just really good . But even if they're good , they still want to get better . Yes , so even the best athletes still have coaches . They watch themselves on video , so they can just get better .
I know some people have like personal trainers that can help them out if they need help .
Yes .
Like sometimes , the personal trainers know that they need help on this after watching that videotape of them .
Correct . They watch themselves and they go . You know what ? I didn't do that well , how can I practice just that one thing ?
Sometimes it's strength exercising that they need . Sometimes it's just a little more experience .
Yes , and maybe it's changing their technique just a little bit , or stop doing one thing and start doing another .
Yeah , it is sometimes sad . Yeah , nice and sometimes it's the way they eat . Sometimes they need to go on a diet .
Yeah , yeah , nutrition is a very important part of having excellent health .
Yeah .
So it's important you know , so every so often , like you know , after the studio , today , going next door to get ice cream .
Okay , well ice cream is really good ice cream is really good it's .
It's milk , right . Milk's good for you , isn't that right and so ?
what's your favorite ? Ice cream , not , not , not like , not vanilla with stuff in it , just just plain ice cream . What's your favorite ?
that's hard , that's hard , huh that's really hard because I like all of them .
You like all of them .
Except chocolate . I do not like chocolate .
You don't like chocolate ? No . I don't know where she comes from when did she get that from , but her ?
brother and myself , the chocolates are our favorite , but I mean , we don't have to fight over it .
We don't have to get into it . She's not a big chocolate fan , so maybe you just get Mommy's stuff , you and Mommy like the same stuff , so like vanilla , strawberry Ooh , that's hard , I'm going to go vanilla and ooh , coconut , mango , vanilla and strawberry .
All mixed together . No , sometimes separate , sometimes mixed , sometimes separate Coconut , that sounds delicious .
Yeah , I'm not a coconut fan , not a coconut fan .
Yesterday we went to a . Mexican ice cream place with my mom . I'm not a coconut fan . Yesterday we went to a Mexican ice cream place with my mom and I got a coconut , mango and rainbow sprinkle Mist .
With rainbow sprinkles on it . That's crazy . I need to find out where that is . It is . It's pretty close actually .
It's over by our house . So let's talk about excellence a little bit . Thank you for being with us .
Excellence in ice cream making . Excellence in ice cream making . Excellence in ice cream making .
We should do that .
We should try that .
yeah , this show is sponsored by Brahms Brahms , if you know us out here in Texas about surpassing standards to achieve outcomes that are over the top , that are really good for the benefit of the company and to make a profit , or whatever that might be . And for me , what do you consider for biblical leadership excellence ?
Let's just talk about excellence in general , and then we'll hone in , because I've got several scriptures that I want to share .
¶ Striving for Excellence and Perfectionism
Let's just talk about excellence as an umbrella and in my research doing show prep , there are several elements of excellence . Elements of excellence . One is your passion for your goals . You have a goal , most people have some goals , but do you have passion to actually reach that ? I mean , is your passion excellent or is it just kind of mediocre ?
Do you beat yourself up because no , I can't do it . It'd be great but I just can't do it ? So I think part of excellence is your commitment or your passion for your goals .
The second part of excellence , I think is are you willing to put in the hard work to pursue excellence , or are you trying to just do it the easy way or get around the bush or something like that ? Are you just , are you trying to just kind of do it halfway ?
So I think part of excellence is not just your commitment to the goal , but are you willing to put the hard work in to reach the goal . And then the other part of excellence is do you believe in yourself that you can actually do it ?
And I think a lot of people might struggle with that third part because growing up they might have been told that they can do it or they're not good enough to do it , or they don't have the skill to do it or the knowledge to do it or whatever . You fill in the blank , but they don't believe in themselves .
So I think part of the element of excellence is believing in yourself to do that , and I think that's one reason it's important to surround yourself with positive people Like , for example , you know , for the last year and a half I've been into a triathlon training and I joined a triathlon club in Fort Worth Amazing group of people .
We had last Saturday open swim practice down at the lake down in South Fort Worth and everybody was so encouraging , positive . How can I help you do this ? And you need to surround yourself with people like that , because I don't have a whole lot of experience in open water swimming .
I mean , like swimming in a lake , it's a whole different thing than swimming in a swimming pool and I didn't have all the confidence . But the more I do it , the more I'm around people like that . They're encouraging me . I'm thinking , okay , I can do this . So part of the excellence is do you have the self-confidence to actually do what you want to ?
do . Yeah , I mean you can gain pretty good confidence swimming around all the alligators . Yes , exactly right , and so we only had to dodge three of them .
Three of them , yeah , and just one water moccasin . So other than that , it was good , right there right there .
You know , I think back I I grew up in , I didn't grow up on the lake , I grew up on like fish and stuff , but my , my , uh . My roommates in college were both out of lake of the ozarks and that's all we did .
We're in the water , you know we were , we were swimming , we were playing tag around the boat docks , swimming in and out of them and jumping off and you know going and I'm like boy , just would I do that today I don't know that I would do some of the silly stuff that I did , Cause I mean now I know snakes , I know all the stuff that's in the water .
Yeah , I know some dangers . I think in different terms in my head of like , avoid that , be good for these little kiddos here .
But I'm like I just , it sounds pretty risky though I'm pretty risky it sounds pretty risky .
Swimming with snakes and slithering and all that stuff that was there .
Well , I grew up in New Mexico . There was like one lake in the entire state , so I didn't have a whole lot of options , except we learned to swim in the YMCA . So that's what we did and that's where I learned to swim at an early age . I never was a good swimmer , but I certainly enjoy it .
So let's go back to the principles , because you talked about something two weeks ago when you were on the podcast without me , and I appreciate you doing that , and that is the whole thing of perfectionism .
Yes .
There's a big difference between excellence and perfectionism . And so excellence is is striving to be outstanding or above average , okay , and you know you can always improve but perfectionism you have such a high standard that anything other than perfect is intolerable , and so you beat yourself up .
Whatever you could be extremely the best in your field , but if it's not perfect , perfect , then you're going to criticize yourself , and so self-condemnation is such an enemy of excellence . And just think okay , I'm learning from this , I'm doing this , how can I get better ? I'm just going to keep striving , striving , striving .
And if you think you have to be perfect , that is going to be a big enemy of excellence . And so you have to examine am I a perfectionist to the point where I'm going to be critical of myself if I'm not perfect in everything , because no one has ever done that except Jesus .
And so you have to think okay , am I just going to strive for excellence or am I going to strive for perfection ?
And so , before you ever start out , I think that's a good thing to think about perfection , and so , before you ever start out , I think that's a good thing to think about . Yeah , and I think it's , it's it's good to look at it . As far as you know , it's really tough and I know a lot of people struggle with perfectionism and and how they go about it .
Um , you know it's it's if you strive and you do your best . You know , know , we talk about this with you , at least in gymnastics , right ? Do I think that you'll be the Olympic gymnastic person you could be ?
Yeah , I could be if I work just a tad bit harder .
A tad bit harder because she doesn't strive for excellence every day . Sometimes I look over and she's trying to figure out how to , you know , maybe do the lunges but then take two steps in between the lunges she's supposed to do . Yeah , because it hurts my feet when I do it .
Because you have to keep your feet like on the floor and you can't get on your knee , so it hurts really bad .
But I mean , you strive to be the best that you can be right , so you don't have to be perfect in anything and everything you do , but you want to be the best right . It's sort of like she's on a big lego kick now , so she's building lego kick I'm on the last bag .
I'm building the head and then I'll be done with it .
I've built like four other of them four of these big ones that come with the six or ten bags and stuff , so she's been putting those together and what is it going to be when you finish , when you end up ? What's the shape ?
This one's going to be a panda .
A panda .
It's going to be a big panda , but it's going to have a drawer that you can open and it's going to be like a big house , like a big apartment of a panda .
Inside the panda .
Yeah .
Wow , and how tall is this panda ?
I would say like . I would say like , maybe that big .
Maybe that yeah .
About a foot , you know , for the listeners .
And when we're talking about the Legos , I mean you're striving for excellence , you want to do it , you've been watching the directions , but every once in a while there's been a couple pieces missing , right ? Yes , and you didn't get twisted over it . You're like well , how can I redesign this ?
So that's the difference between perfectionism . I was building this big golem house and they were missing so many pieces for the arm of the golem and I was like you know what ? I'm just going to make it an armless golem . It's going to have one arm only , and she did .
Well , let's go back to what you just said . You've got to follow the instructions . Yes , right , if you just have a bag of Legos and you have no instructions , you might get there . It's going to take a lot longer . It's just like putting together a puzzle that has a thousand pieces and you don't have the top to the box and you're trying to figure out .
I saw a puzzle the other day . Our grandkids were in town and so we took them to the Department of the Treasury , where they print money in North Fort Worth , and we saw them print all this money . And then we walk inside at the gift shop and they have a puzzle that has a picture on both sides .
What .
Yes , and it's a triangle . Okay , it's a triangle puzzle and there's a picture on both sides . And I'm thinking , oh my , unless you actually could see the picture of what it's supposed to end up like , how in the world would you know which side to turn up and down ? And I thought , wow , you got to follow the instructions .
And I think that's so true in excellence If we want to have excellence in something , we've got to follow a pattern . We've got to follow the instructions to reach a certain level of excellence .
Yeah , god always has a plan for us and it helps us . And God always has a plan for us and it helps us kind of know and he already knows what's going to happen in the future . So he's kind of like preparing us with our thoughts and he's trying to help us in every single way he can .
That was great . Thank you for saying that . Yeah , Okay so let's go talk to the biblical .
So in the book of Philippians , 4 , verse 8 , which is an incredible chapter in itself , but this verse 8 , we read these Finally , brothers and sisters whatever is true , whatever is honorable , whatever is just , whatever is pure , whatever is lovely , whatever is commendable , if there is any excellence , if there is any excellence , if there is anything worthy of praise ,
think about these things . And so Paul's encouraging us to think about those things that are excellent . You've got to envision what excellence is going to mean . So , if you're learning to play piano , or if you're doing a sport , if you're an artist , if you're a chef , he's thinking okay , what would excellence look like if I ? What's the goal ?
And you've got to , and Vince , you've got to put that in your mind . So you have something to think about . And Paul's saying you know those things that are excellent , those things that are godly and holy you need to be thinking about those things and living that kind of life .
Yeah , and from the corporate . You know one of the things love him or hate him . Elon Musk , you know , with the SpaceX , the Teslas and the SpaceX program , just the vision to have it out there and how much he strives to be excellent .
I mean the technology that they're doing about bringing back the rockets and reusing them and all that stuff that's out there .
¶ Striving for Excellence Without Comparison
Don't forget the Cybertruck . The Cybertruck is really cool .
You like the Cybertruck ? Yeah , you think I should get one of those .
It's way out of your league .
Oh , it's way out of my league , all right .
The best you can do is a new Cadillac you bought yourself .
Yeah , all right , I like that .
Cybertruck . I saw one of those and I thought , what in the world is that ? And then I thought , oh , it's a Cybertruck .
Yeah , yeah .
They're really expensive .
They're very expensive .
They haven't even been released yet . They're like only prototypes . No , they've been released , I think afford them . Oh , they're like thousands of millions of dollars .
Thousands of millions of dollars . I don't know about that .
They literally have all the new technology .
They have some technology . They're pretty nice .
You know how expensive the Teslas are .
Yeah , that's exactly right . So let's talk about excellence Go ahead . No , I was exactly right . So let's talk about excellence Go ahead . No , I was going to say one more Scripture verse that I think is helpful .
It's easy to say but it's very difficult to do . And that's from the same book , the book of Philippians . This one's from chapter 3 . We're starting with verse 7 . And this is what .
Let me make sure that I read the right chapter here look at all my show prep and I don't even have the one for Philippians yeah , philippians , chapter 3 , that's pretty impressive because usually we sync up my show prep and your show prep usually comes pretty close .
I don't have this one , tell me , tell me .
I'm going to learn something . Okay , here we go .
I'm ready to hear it .
Okay . So chapter 3 , verse 7 through 14 , we read this , and the big verse is on verse 13, . But here we go . But whatever gain I had , I counted as loss , for the sake of Christ . Indeed , I count everything as lost because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus , my Lord .
For his sake , I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish , in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him , not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law , but that which comes through faith in Christ , the righteousness from God that depends on faith that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and may share
his sufferings , becoming like him in his death . That , by any means possible , I may attain the resurrection from the dead . Then listen to these words . Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect , but I press on to make it my own , because Christ Jesus has made me his own Brothers .
I do not consider that I have made it my own , but one thing I do here's the point forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead .
I press on toward the goal , for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus , and I think a lot of people don't think they can ever achieve excellence because they can't forget what was in their past life , the mistakes they made or the things that they did , or whatever . They beat themselves up over things .
They can't forget it , and so they just almost have defeated before they ever start . And so I think that's one of the powerful things about a relationship with Christ is he can help us start anew .
We were talking before the show about Mary Magdalene in the Bible and what an incredible story of transformation that she had a new life because not from her own efforts , but by the grace of God . So , by the grace of God that comes through Christ , we can start over .
We can't change the past , but we can , through the help of Christ , change how much the past influences our present and future , and for some people that past weighs so heavy on them that they don't see a possibility for excellence in the future , so for anything .
And so one of the things I think that we can do through this show and through other means is to help people have that relationship so that they can start anew and forget the things . They won't forget them , but they don't have to be restricted . They don't have to be bound , they don't have to be contained by those things and the memories of the past .
Yeah , and I think I'll take that even one step farther the past . A lot of people are hindered by the past , but I think in today's world , I think a lot of the stuff that we have , an excellence is p from .
That that people have problems with is comparing themselves to the the other person yes , so in other words what kind of video might put posting up that compares to this guy ? or I need to post pictures of our uh dinner , because our four friends posted pictures of their dinner , you know , and whatever it might be .
And I think , if we live by standards , that we need to get back to standards that fall into what each of us believe right , each of us represent as a leader , as a Christian , and not compare ourselves to the other , because I think that that's where a lot of people go stray and they don't feel like they're ever accomplished in excellence , but they've far
exceeded excellence , probably based on standards of growing up and different things like that , but they just don't feel like they have the fancy cars , the fancy house and all this stuff and they try to compare to other people , and I think we got to get out of that to a point .
I think that's one of the biggest mistakes , and I know I did that a lot growing up . It never was good , because eventually , when you compare yourself to others , you always come out on the short end , always . And now at one point you might come out on the top end .
But if you keep doing that someone's , eventually you're not going to be as good as somebody . Someone's going to be better . Just think about the Olympics . There's going to be so many records that are shattered here in Paris this summer that 10 , 20 years ago we wouldn't even have thought about those records being shattered .
And so once we start comparing ourselves to others , eventually we're going to be on the short end of the stick . So we can strive for excellence and just focus on that instead of trying to compare ourselves to others and remembering , maybe , the mistakes we made in the past .
I saw the video of here a while back and it was a week or so ago , I don't know what her name is I think she's one of the Katie's where she was doing like the 1500 meter and then she tagged and then she just stood there .
She took off her little swim hat and she was just sitting there , washed her hair and I was like what are we seeing a video of ? She was just out there just hanging out and then all of a sudden one person comes and tags the wall .
She beat him in like 20 seconds and then all of a sudden three other people showed up , and then the whole pack showed up . I'm like holy mackerel , that's amazing .
She's a phenomenal swimmer , incredible .
She's like a bullet , I mean my goodness , Because I wasn't watching , I wasn't paying attention . All I saw was her just sort of sitting there in the water . I'm like , well , this is an odd Olympics . You know what are they just showing her like getting warmed up Time trials .
Yeah , but it was , and she was just there just hanging out waiting for people to show up and I thought that was great , I'm here .
The party started .
So here you know , I want to brag on this little girl here beside me that you know .
¶ Fostering Excellence Through Practice and Persistence
You know , this end of this last year we're talking about excellence , and we talked about this as she entered a talent show and all her friends , you know , were doing talent shows and there was doing two or three people doing dances and all this and she , she wasn't , uh , any point , you know , and she went on stage by herself and did her own program in front
of this big auditorium yeah , it was really big there's like a hundred people there , a lot more than a hundred people even then and it was just so impressive that she had did this . And you know what we talked about is that go out and do , do your best .
And because she was a little nervous at first , but then she was fine , she was ready , excited to do it and she went out and she was one of the best ones out there and she did really good .
So what'd you do ?
I did a cheer dance . I mixed cheer with dancing and I did this little performance to the song Dynamite by BTS and sort of what I did was a little cheer with my pom-poms . And then I slid into the split and then did this and then I walked and in the split I did a little wave pom-pom and then I got up and walked off the stage at my cue .
My cue was a part in the song which I forgot the name part , but it was like I think it was bring your friends and then I would get up and walk off stage so did you just ?
were you just good at this , naturally , or how did ?
you , you get so good . No , I had to practice a lot . I practiced for a couple hours .
You practiced a couple hours like every night , every night , yeah , and sometimes you get up in the morning and even do the routine , didn't you ? And do you think that helped get you to being a little bit more on excellence scale ?
Yes , it helped me kind of memorize it bit more on excellence scale . Yes , it helped me kind of memorize it well , but we did have to get creative and change some moves because , like there were some moves in there that weren't really the best , like one where you hug yourself . I was like why would I hug myself on stage ?
that was just weird so that I wish I could have seen that , but I didn't see it . But it reminds me of a statement from Bobby Knight Everybody remembers Bobby .
Knight the basketball coach . I don't know who Bobby Knight was . You don't know who Bobby Knight is ?
Well , he was an incredible basketball coach , but he said this it's not the desire to win , it's the desire to get out and practice .
Yes , the more you practice something , the better you become .
Yeah , because everybody has the desire to win , but not everybody has the desire to practice and keep practicing , and keep practicing , and keep practicing .
Something that someone asks , and my dad can always show you the video after he has it recorded .
Yes , I would love to see that .
He'll show you that after the podcast .
Okay , all right , fair enough . Well , do we recorded ? Yes , I would love to see that . I'll show you that after the podcast . Okay , all right , fair enough well , we got .
Do we have any more dad ? Do you have any more dad ? Jokes for our daughter , jokes for me today um dad , I don't know .
Do you think you can come up with some ?
I've got one , but go ahead , you're first . Uh , I have one . You have one , okay , I'm ready . Two because my dad's driving one . You have two now , okay .
I have two .
Okay , I'm ready . Which one ?
should I do ?
Yeah , the one you didn't know , oh what kind of car does a biblical leader drive ?
What kind of car A ?
Chrysler . It's very reliable and does long exodoses Exodoses .
Exodoses , exodus , exodus .
Okay here .
I've got one for you . Let me just slide it in here . So I'm writing a book about glue , glue , but I'm stuck on the first chapter .
Oh , you ready to hear mine ? I am ready to hear who wants to volunteer to help me out . My dad's going to do it . Who wants to volunteer to help me out ? My dad's going to do it , your dad's going to help you out .
You got volunteered . I'm sort of scared . Do you really have one ? Yeah , I do .
Okay , I'm ready to hear it Knock knock .
Who's there ?
The interrupting cow .
The interrupting . Oh moo , you interrupted me . That's why I'm called the interrupting cow . Oh , the interrupting cow . Oh , very good , there we go . What do you have any more ? Let's see . Um , I don't know if I have too many good ones .
Oh yeah , this one right you got one more yeah why did moses start a business ?
I don't know .
He wanted to lead people to profit , as he did on the profit side .
Okay , read number 32 .
Read number 32 .
All right .
We just have to bring her in to be the official dad joke teller .
We've got to do dad jokes . Okay , here we go . All right , go ahead . I love telling dad jokes . Sometimes he even laughs .
That's pretty good . That's pretty good . So what's your last thoughts on excellence ? Um , how do you become excellent ? What do you ? What would you give out to all the kids out there that want to become excellent in something that they really strive to be excellent in ?
um , all I have to say is just try and try , try again until you get it . Sometimes it'll take like weeks , maybe even months , but you can always get it . If you practice the hardest and if you really try to do it really hard , then eventually you will get it , and that's really all I have to say you have spoken , that was good .
Yeah , that's pretty . You have spoken , that was good .
Yeah , that's pretty good .
Actually , that was good Because I mean that's what you do . I mean , if you want to be excellent in something you know , some people have natural abilities . But even those people , they can be the best , but if they practice they can even get better . You can always get better when you practice .
There's always an option to be better or just stay where you are .
So you have a goal that you want to do , then you practice and practice and practice Until you reach that goal . Then you evaluate whether you're doing better , and then you maybe adjust your practice a little bit , and then you just keep practicing .
Sometimes , when you reach your goal , you might have another goal set up and you can do a little bit harder , practice a little bit harder on something harder than reach that goal .
That would be true , like in gymnastics , right ? Yes , you try something Like there's a bronze level .
Where I go , there's a bronze level , a silver level , a gold level , and then you do like competitions .
So you start at little and you get to that goal and you work up and you get good at that .
Then you do an evaluation with the coach , and then you go up to silver , and then you practice and then do an evaluation , and then you practice and do another evaluation until you reach championship .
What a great lesson .
Read this quote that I have right here . Right there , see this one right here . That's the one I was going to end on today .
Let me read it for you . Excellence is not a singular act , but a habit . You are what you repeatedly do .
There you go . That's just his name Aristotle .
Yeah , so are what you repeatedly do . There you go .
That's just his name Aristotle , aristotle , yeah , so . So , basically , you know , become a habit . If you want to get something , you want to do something , you know . Work out every day , you know , and and that's when you know it's becoming a habit is when you don't have time to work out or your job doesn't allow you and you feel bad .
You know you're on the right path of becoming an excellent , you know , and in excellence , because you feel bad when you miss or you go out or you have that cheat meal or whatever it might be .
Yes , ma'am , I have one more joke .
I saw in there that I want to tell Okay , I'm ready , I am so ready . So you have to make striving for excellence a priority .
Yes .
In your time in the whole thing , right ? Yes , yeah , okay , at least I'm ready .
How do corporate leaders in the Bible stay fit ?
How do corporate leaders in the Bible stay fit ? I don't know by doing CrossFit with Moses .
He always includes a lot of stretching staffs .
¶ Summer Guests and Striving for Excellence
All right . Well , we thank you for our special guest to join us . We're going to have to make you a regular addition on the show , you know , at least for summer , when we're not in school . Yeah , three months , next couple three months , well , three and a half , oh , okay . Well , that's a long time .
That half is important .
That half is very important .
It would be important to me , actually , all right . Well , thank you for joining us here on Tuesday and , you know , thank you for hanging out with us . Elise , any parting words ? Tell them to get excellent or anything .
Strive . You can always strive to be better and have an excellent day .
And I hope you have a great year .
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