"Thank you for never putting the demand for perfection on us, the expectation for excellence is an exciting goal to reach for as opposed to a burden that tightens around the neck and limits our abilities." I sent this statement as a text to my boss after coming out of a meeting with someone who works for another company and seeing the sheer anxiety and fear on them as they were going over details for an upcoming event. As long as I have worked for my boss, never has perfection been demanded but a desire to do all things in excellence has always been the prevailing goal. Demanding perfection leaves us open for failure and fatality. But striving for excellence leaves us open to grow and learn even when we fall short. And in turn when we do hit excellence than we can expand our expectation into greater excellence. Demanding perfection is like tying a noose around your neck with a heavy weight attached, when you are striving to be perfect and your trying to balance the weight of it, it invariably tightens that noose and eventually limits your ability to do anything. The difference between demanding perfection and expecting excellence is also the difference between slavery mentality and sonship mentality.
I'm thankful that I'm not a slave but son (daughter) who gets to joyfully pursue excellence!
