Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2076. I realize that I've been getting my numbers off lately. So to clarify, this is episode 276 and the last one was episode 2075, even though I said otherwise. Today we are diving into the topic of excellence. I've shared this with you before,

but I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Excellence isn't about being perfect. It's about

the relentless pursuit of getting better. For those of you who have been with me for a while,

you know that we often discuss this difference between perfection

and progress. Perfection, it's a tricky concept because so many people chase it,

but it's stagnant. It's rigid. It's unattainable. And it can even lead to paralysis by

analysis. On the other hand, the pursuit of getting better is the opposite.

It's dynamic. It's movement. It's growth. It's about waking up every day with a mindset that no

matter where you are, how you've been doing, or what challenges lie ahead, there's always an

opportunity to improve.

Improve it doesn't mean that you're going to be flawless. It means you're refining yourself,

sharpening your tools and strengthening your skills. The pursuit of excellence demands

showing up even when it's uncomfortable and probably especially when it's uncomfortable.

It's about taking pride in the small, unnoticed steps that are laying the foundation for greatness. It's that the private

victories you're getting that are going to show up on the public scoreboard down the road.

It doesn't require you to avoid failure. It actually demand you to

embrace it. And because failure is where growth happens, as we always discuss. And it builds

resilience. And resilience is built by taking those punches, getting knocked down, and then

standing back up. Only a stronger, better, smarter version of

yourself. Every time we take one more step, we learn one more lesson or give one more ounce of

effort. That's excellent. That's how we define it. It's not by being perfect, but by committing

to that process. And when we relentlessly pursue

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