Yesterday, I said work gives us the canvas necessary for excellence and fulfillment. With few exceptions, excellence and fulfillment are accessible only through work.
By work, I mean more than the modern sense of your job. I mean the timeless view of work in the sense of expending blood, sweat, tears, and time.
That got me thinking.
You must learn to separate work from the product of work. Purpose found through work is not dependent on what it produces. The work itself contains a purpose.
People tend to measure excellence by the product of their work rather than by the work itself. They associate excellence and fulfillment with the outcome, not the action.
You don't control the quality of the outcome. You control the quality of your contribution.
Excellence and fulfillment from outcomes are short-lived and unreliable. Do not attach your measure of excellence and fulfillment only to the result.
The disciplined person focuses on excellence in their work. Fulfillment comes from living with excellence, not achieving excellence. They trust it will lead to excellence in outcomes and fulfilling experiences.
If excellence is present in your blood, sweat, tears, and time, life will reward you—and so will your heart.
Brick by brick. Do the work.
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