Happy Birthday to me

It is my birthday as of about an hour ago and I thought it deserved a posting...

My gift to myself this year is going to be not accepting mediocrity as a standard of life. The past few months I have allowed myself to live by sub-standards and from here on out the aim is excellence! In my opinion this will be the best gift I receive. So the real question is what is excellence???

Its Latin root is excellentia, which is rooted in the verb excellere meaning to surpass. With that in mind excellence is merely surpassing what has been done in the past.

As I look in my past I must admit that I have had some shining moments that made both me and my mom proud. those moments are going to be the standards I must surpass. I guess my gift to myself this year is somewhat like a belated New Years resolution.

The key to obtaining excellence will be to pick my best moments in my life and link goals to help surpass those moments. Goals however mean nothing unless written down. To be even more effective goals which are written down and told to others are achieved much more frequently. So you the reader will be the ones who will be told my goals...

They however have not been completed so in my next posting you will learn what I will be striving for over the next... long time... maybe..... forever?

Peace out