The fact remains that you can be successful and at the same time not be excellent while on the other hand, you can be successful and be excellent. Take for instance; An undergraduate writes an examination, he was fully prepared and he gets in return an excellent result. He was asked to retake this same examination and he still came out with an outstanding or excellent result. Another undergraduate wrote the same examination ill prepared and he gets in return an excellent result through the back door. He was compelled to retake the same examination again and he failed outrightly.
Would you attest that the latter was excellent? Now, you realise that for you to be successful, it takes a process. That process would nurture or launch your ability to be very good at that which you aim to achieve. This process comes with the price of being patient but the exciting and fulfilling aspect of this process is to build your ability for excellence that is, the quality of being extremely good at what you want to achieve.
In a nutshell, for you to be excellent and successful in your career, it takes a lot of patience (process) to ride on the cycle of success and thereby unconciously laying a solid platform to be excellent.
HAPPY 51ST INDEPENDENCE DAY, NIGERIA!!!!
