excellence

I have been thinking a lot about everything lately. Love, life, future, wants, hopes, and dreams. The one thing I come back to is excellence. I am not talking about being perfect; I firmly believe we are imperfectly perfect. We can get better at things, be in better shape, learn more but who we are, yes it is imperfect but our imperfectness is perfect. I come back to excellence though. I feel like I am constantly on the hot pursuit of excellence. How can I bring excellence to all the things I do? Mother? Wife? Friend? Athlete? Teacher? I am so inspired by this word that I am actually thinking of getting it as a tattoo. Yup. Excellence. New Balance has a phrase "Let's make excellent happen." I love that phrase, it is not saying let's be perfect but let's chase down our dream, desires, and hopes. Let's push ourselves to our limits and then push right past them. What an intense and wonderful feeling that is to think we have hit excellence only to find out, nope, we have even more to give. Let's go to bed every night happily exhausted that we lived the fullest, most beautiful life, we could in one day. We were kind, we were gentle with our words, we pushed ourselves even when it was hard and we were life givers. We smiled often, we put passion and drive into everything that we did. Let's do that. Let's make excellence happen. Let's be incredibly, excellent people. I am not asking for perfection or that we never make mistakes (even mistakes help us on our route to excellence) but I am saying let's dig deep, and see just how capable we are of making excellence happen.