Excellence

There was a time when I was really big on excellence. It's something that my Pastor talks about a lot you see and it's an attitude/way of life that is totally necessary if we are ever going to reflect Christ in our lives.

For any reading this who may be less versed in church speak.
Excellence / a spirit of excellence is a term for doing things to the best of ones ability and "going the extra mile".

I was first confronted by God's desire for me to manifest excellence in my life when I began working and I would attempt to cut corners, only to experience, erm, I suppose a sense of wrong doing in not doing things to the best of my ability as I would if, say, the area manager was watching me. An example was when I was in the stock room and there wern't many orders so I would be on the phone, reading the paper, drinking hot chocolate, revising for A-levels etc. The Lord convicted me anyway and I started finding work related things to do, even though nobody would see, but God sees init! As a brudda from work put it, "we don't need no (work) supervisor, we've always got a (eternal) supervisor". One of my workmates did notice though :).

So this attitude then began to spread throughout much of my life and I'm not gonna lie, it jarred my flesh quite a bit lol. I couldn't leave dishes to "soak" any more, no more 95% doing things, I had to be on time to Church and not 5,10,35 etc minutes late. The list goes on.

Recently, I feel that I've let this slip in some areas, specifically punctuality in regards to university. Getting out of bed for 9am lectures has never been such a struggle as in 2011. I've missed soo many lectures and I've been late to even more and it's not cool. It began when I believed I wouldn't be continuing my studies in Jan 2011 and so I became lax from then. This was clearly the enemy (crafty bugger) and now I'm in a war to get my excellence game back on!

I've been losing the war so far, I won't lie.

Time to get the big guns out! Time to become accountable!

But to whom?