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    366 Days of Excellence: Daily Reflections Along The Road of Individual and Team Achievement
    366 Days of Excellence: Daily Reflections Along The Road of Individual and Team Achievement
    366 Days of Excellence: Daily Reflections Along The Road of Individual and Team Achievement
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    366 Days of Excellence: Daily Reflections Along The Road of Individual and Team Achievement

    By Paul D. Bailey

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    At some point in our lives, regardless of our age, gender, race, title or
    ability, we all must rise up and strive to capture the vision of success.
    This is not an easy task to undertake -- the path to success is fraught
    with challenges to our body, mind and spirit. If we truly long for
    personal and organizational achievement, we must first pave that path
    with the principles and processes of excellence. In this book, the seeds
    of achievement are planted each and every day so as to provide you
    with the knowledge and the courage needed to blaze a trail to your
    dreams and your goals.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 1, 2000
    ISBN9781483541877
    366 Days of Excellence: Daily Reflections Along The Road of Individual and Team Achievement

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      366 Days of Excellence - Paul D. Bailey

      substance.

      Forward

      "Will you join in our crusade?

      Who will be strong and stand with me?

      Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?

      When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drum, it is the future that we bring when tomorrow comes!"

      Les Miserables

      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’.

      Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

      The Cause

      There is no substitute for excellence!

      I say this emphatically because we are living in a time that is willing to embrace mediocrity. Excellence, achievement and success are viewed as ideals based on good fortune more than standards rooted in hard work and perseverance. Admiration for people who attain levels of personal excellence has been replaced with feelings of jealousy and envy. Organizations which have mastered the challenges of excellence are labeled as corrupt and manipulative. In short, we have lost perspective of the place for excellence in our society.

      While the conscience of our culture would never admit to the demonization of excellence, we have nonetheless systematically watered- down its relevancy. In our zeal to make everyone feel good about themselves, we have de-valued excellence and replaced it with the glorification of simple effort.

      Throughout our institutions, examples of the erosion of a commitment to excellence are everywhere:

      *Schools that have eliminated the A-F grading system and replaced it with new-age, touchy-feely jargon that rewards more for effort than for results.

      *Athletic associations which have decided that keeping score is unnecessary, for they do not want a competitive environment defined by winners and losers.

      *Governmental agencies lowering the standards of admissions to state colleges and universities when a number of people can’t reach the minimum level; and then have those same people subsequently complain that the system is still unfair.

      *Businesses which promote and advance people based more on political correctness than upon achievement and contribution.

      While I can understand the rationale behind all of these trends (and even would have supported them 25 years ago), it has been shown that they provide nothing in helping us, or our society, to advance. Instead, these measures serve to enable weaknesses, excuse away failures, and create an entire class of victims. To destroy the cause of excellence, is to destroy the mechanism of personal and cultural greatness.

      The Challenge

      It is said that we write a book because we have something to say.

      I am no different.

      I am writing this book because I have something to say, and want to contribute to the revitalization of our culture’s need to once again embrace the philosophy of excellence. This is not about giving the concept of excellence lip service so it can make us all feel good. This book is about establishing the challenge in ourselves and our institutions to understand, implement, and teach the principles of excellence.

      I truly believe that all of us, regardless of our physical or mental capacity, can define and establish a standard of excellence by which we can live. I also believe that our societal institutions must re-invest in a standard of excellence for all of us to see. All it takes is the courage to change, and a vision to see that the long-term consequences in a dedication to excellence means we will ALL achieve, prosper, and grow.

      The Book

      What this book does is to clearly establish The 5 Pillars of Excellence - the foundation by which the pursuit of individual and organizational achievement has as its genesis.

      Excellence is not an ideal - it is a process of which our physical and mental abilities must be capable of understanding and utilizing. In other words, it is the means to an end, not an end to the means.

      Any person, family, team, organization, etc., which aspires to achieve a standard of excellence, requires the knowledge and aptitude of The 5 Pillars of Excellence.

      The Five Pillars

      The Pillars are defined as:

      Character

      To believe in and adhere to an ethical standard of personal and interpersonal conduct.

      Direction

      To be willing, able, and subsequently committed to defining and achieving a stated purpose for your existence.

      Discipline

      A source of passion, motivation, and regulation which provides structure and moral encouragement.

      Relationships

      To understand and apply the principles of relationships as being healthy and growth-oriented.

      Leadership

      A source of guidance which offers for all of us a sense of integrity, consistency, dedication, professionalism, humanness, and class.

      To some, this book simply defines the 5 P’s of Excellence: Principles - Purpose - People - Passion - Power. But you will see that this book is not about defining a formula for excellence; rather, it establishes an understanding of the components needed to achieve excellence. There is no formula for excellence - a method of controlling the systems and processes to configure one for success. There can only be a philosophy of excellence - a manner of thought and action that prepares one for achievement.

      From my years of being a coach and teacher I have learned that people best acquire the skills needed for excellence through a slow process of assimilation. All of which is problematic in today’s world of instant knowledge and immediate gratification. I certainly could put some formulaic method on paper and thusly inform people to the concept of excellence, but that would do little in educating them to utilize the principles of excellence.

      This book is a direct reflection of my educational philosophy that we learn best and retain more through small, incremental points of wisdom.

      What this book does is take each one of The 5 Pillars of Excellence and systematically arranges them from January 1 to December 31. On each date is a corresponding thought to that component of excellence.

      After 5 days, it comes full circle again, and the educational process of The 5 Pillars repeats itself with new insights on each topic.

      Therefore, over the course of the year, the reader will receive 73 educational concepts for each of the 5 components.

      The Hope

      Once upon a time, a man went searching for the secret to achievement. He talked to learned

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