Excellence: What's the Standard?

It's seems like excellence has been a recurring theme lately. Eileen talked about it at vision night recently and then Pastor's message on Sunday talked about "Raising the Bar" in our lives. If you missed Sunday, I would highly recommend you to check out the podcast by clicking here.

There has to be a standard if we are ever going to exhibit excellence in our lives. That's where I've found things to get tricky at times. It's easy to use other people as our standard. We can find ourselves in the trap of comparison by saying " well I'm doing better than so and so, so I'm all right" or on the flip side we can say " I'll never be able to do as much as so and so, why bother trying". We miss the mark because we have the wrong standard and have set the wrong goal.

We can't live to our fullest potential if we spend all of our time trying to live up to or surpass someone else's potential.

So if that's the case, what should the standard be?

What does excellence mean to you?