The Funky Street Sweeper

Excellence is achieved via qualitative, not quantitative shifts in developing skills. Being part of a qualitatively different world or environment where excellence is expected and practiced is a key to achieving excellence.

The following quote from Martin Luther King beautifully demonstrates the meaning of a qualitative shift and how it pertains to personal excellence.

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’”

Enjoy this video of the funkiest street sweeper in the world, Ziggy Dust.

The bin man spins, slides and twirls his litter stick as he collects rubbish around the streets of Hounslow, west London.

‘I love to see people smile when they see me dancing and the Council has been very supportive in letting me do my job in a different way,’ said Ziggy.

The moral of this message is simple: Find a calling and then deliver it with excellence and your own sense of style.

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How wrong and casualty-creating that premise is as the best goal or most honorable intention cannot survive poor execution.

Read the following very closely…

Goals never fail…Only implementation does!

What is good execution?

Good execution is all about making good decisions and making things happen. It’s about reacting well to unpleasant and unexpected events.

It’s about building capabilities into your life and business—the capability to be efficient and effective in respect to those factors that are critical to your success.

It’s about FedEx making sure that the package really does arrive the next day–guaranteed.

So, how do you execute well and get good at it?

How do you make more progress in 100 days than most people do over a ten year period of time?

The answer is simple…

Participate in the 100 Day Challenge and I’ll turn you into an unstoppable powerhouse.

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Got one?

Good…

Now ask yourself if on that day, if there was ever not a need for honesty, integrity, compassion, character, good judgment, discipline, self-control or focus.

And the answer is, of course not.

There will NEVER be a day in your life that will not require the demonstration of these noble virtues.

NEVER…

In addition, there will never be a day of your life that does not provide you with…

The opportunity to take initiative…

The feeling that you can do better…

The opening to demonstrate excellence…

The chance to make the world a better place…

If you only step up and ANSWER THE CALL.

Accept this reality…we live in a highly competitive world, where people and companies are often competing for the same goal and in many cases competing with limited resources.

If there is something you want from life than you must step up, you must take initiative, and you must answer the call when opportunity presents itself.

Why?

Because if you don’t, someone else will.

In the 100 Day Challenge, you will be pushed, prodded and poked every day to make demonstrable action on your goals.

If you’re really up for a challenge, to see what you are REALLY made of, than join us for a life changing experience.

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The answer is, some men succeed because the cheerfully pay the price of success while others, though they claim ambition, are unwilling to pay that price.

In this post, I want to introduce you to an important truth on your path to success, “Choose Your Suffering”.

Everything you want in life, every goal you want to achieve, every dream you want to manifest comes with a price tag.

There is NO FREE LUNCH when it comes to true success and achievement.

To achieve any goal, you must choose the suffering that’s right for you, you must accept that reality, you must embrace that truth, and then you must live with it every day of your life.

Throughout the 100 Day Challenge, you will be reminded to pay the price of success each day and you will be astounded by the results that you are able to generate.

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Your success in every aspect of your life requires an enormous threshold of discomfort and inconvenience because of the many sacrifices involved.

Inconvenience and discomfort are part of the foundational building blocks of success and every person who has ever been legitimately successful has formed the habit of doing things that others don’t like to do.

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Unfortunately, our society has placed such a high premium on convenience and expediency that it has enabled weakness, while also creating an inability for many to perform at peak levels.

True, big-time, legitimate success is something that is achieved by the MINORITY of people, and is therefore unnatural and not to be achieved by following our natural likes and dislikes nor by being guided by our natural preferences and prejudices.

The reality is that highly successful people are influenced by the desire for PLEASING RESULTS while overwhelming majority of people are influenced by the desire for PLEASING METHODS.

If you’re up for a challenge, and I mean if you’re really serious about making lasting and significant change in your life than be sure to say YES to the 100 Day Challenge where you’ll turn into an unstoppable powerhouse!

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Do you think you’re business would be more efficient, effective, and even more profitable?

Do you think your reputation would improve and that you would attract bigger and better opportunities?

Do you think that you would eliminate a lot of wasted time and unnecessary do-overs?

Of course the answer is YES on all points.

So, what exactly does it mean to do things right the first time?

Doing Things Right the First Time is a philosophy, a mentality, and a performance standard.

It’s a practical measure against which any system; process, action, or outcome can be analyzed.

It’s important to note that focusing on how you can do everything right the first time does NOT mean that you are trying to perfect…

It means that you are changing your perspective on the “How” part of your job and improving your overall performance.

To accomplish this feet, you must demand that the following three things take place…

1. Recognize the high cost of mistakes and quality issues;
2. Continuously think of the places where flaws occur in your performance;
3. Work proactively to address the flaws in your systems and behaviors so that quality performances take place.

Once you begin the 100 Day Challenge, you will learn a step-by-step process for radically improving your results by making everything you do count.

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Success is the result of making and keeping commitments to yourself and others, while all failed or unfinished goals, projects and relationships are the direct result of broken commitments. It’s that simple, that profound, and that important.

The following video showcases The Integrity Pledge and the critical role it plays in your life.

Commitment proceeds success, and your ability to demonstrate a sustained commitment to your goals can and will alter the trajectory of your life.

Until you’ve committed to them, goals are irrelevant, dreams are useless, and hopes are no more than a pipe dream.

Commitment inspires you to perform to the best of your abilities. It protects and strengthens your credibility and reputation with yourself and others. It provides you with passionate energy and unstoppable momentum, and fills you with a sense of pride that’s priceless.

In the 100 Day Challenge, your level of commitment will be put to the test, so before enrolling, ask yourself if you have what it takes to follow through, stay focused and pay the price that success demands.

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This understanding is both enhanced and magnified once combined with The Law of Exposure.

The Law of Exposure tells us that our minds think about what it is most exposed too.

The following must-see video spotlights the distinction between decent and indecent exposure.

It amazes me to see how many people think they can live as they want and that they can avoid the consequences of this law.

They think they can read anything they want and it won’t affect them. They think they can watch bad images or listen to nasty music and it won’t affect them.

You must never forget that your mind thinks about what it is exposed too.

Therefore consciously give serious exposure to whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—expose yourself accordingly.

In the 100 Day Challenge you will be exposed to the best practices for turning your life, career and business into an unstoppable powerhouse.

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Everything is possible!

What follows is what I affectionately call the 30-Day Extreme Makeover. Follow it to the letter and you will be quite pleased with the outcome.

It’s a simple six step process that is easy to learn, easy to apply, and perhaps most important easy to get results from.

•What do you specifically want to achieve in the next 30 days? Be precise or don’t bother moving to the next step.

• Why is the achievement of this goal(s) so important? Be clear on the key drivers and motivation.

• Who will help you to achieve this goal? Be sure that these are the right people.

• Where do you stand in relation to this goal? Be ruthless as to current strengths and weaknesses.

• How do you plan on accomplishing this goal? Be deliberate, identify the exact steps, tasks, and assign responsibility.

• When will victory be claimed? Be committed and follow one course until successful.

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Twenty Important Questions

I’ve got an exercise for you and suggest you take some time to sit down with these questions…think about your answers…challenge yourself…write them down…then go to work!

1. What problem or seemingly overwhelming challenge did you conquer in the past year, and what is your greatest challenge or unsolved problem that exists in your life right now?

2. In what area of your personal or professional life would you consider yourself most improved, and what area will you focus on this year?

3. What are you going to do to improve your industry and product knowledge in the New Year?

4. How many inactive customers will you revive and turn into regular customers again? What do you need to do to make that happen?

5. What will you do to ensure you’re protecting your best customers, and adding more value to the relationships? How will you sell even more to them?

6. How many new customers will you bring on this year? How do you plan to do that, specifically?

7. What will you do to improve your physical health this year?

8. What, specifically, are your sales and production goals for the new year and how does that break down into quarterly and monthly goals?

9. How much more money will you make this year? How will that happen? What will you need to do, today, to take the first steps in that direction?

10. What will you need to do to increase THAT number by an additional 10%?

11. What are you going to do demonstrate excellence and raise the bar of those around you to perform at peak effectiveness?

12. How much time are you going to spend, daily, to improve your own sales skills? What will you do?

13. In which areas will you improve your personal, family, and spiritual life?

14. How are you going to maximize the use of your time? Where will you cut out the time-wasters in each day?

15. What task or projects have you been putting off that you will take care of within the next two weeks?

16. What challenge, wish or desire–that you’ve never attempted before–will you finally achieve this year and how will you do that?

17. Where are you going to write all of this down so you can review and revise your plans regularly?

18. What will it LOOK like when you accomplish everything you’ve just been thinking about?

19. How good will it FEEL?

20. What will it SOUND like when you achieve these things?

Okay, here’s one more question…

21. Why COULDN’T you do all of this?

Any answer to that last one is not a reason, but rather a self-imposed limitation, excuse, or lack of desire or effort.

The biggest deterrent to success looks us in the mirror every day.

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