Mediocrity

A few months ago, I spent the weekend in Newport Beach at a retreat for a coaching group I’m in. We heard from world-renowned speakers, health and wellness gurus, and we even engaged in some breathwork (it was so intense that multiple people passed out!).

The last speaker of the weekend asked us to form a circle around him and said this as he was closing his talk. Actually, he screamed it. At the top of his lungs. It gave me chills then. It’s giving me chills now as I’m writing this.

“Who will stand beside me and declare war against mediocrity?!”

Declare war against mediocrity? Wow.

It’s so easy to be complacent. It’s so easy to go through the motions. It’s so easy to be okay with things being okay.

And those things are fine for some people. But are they fine for you?

Thousands of you read this email every week. You’d have left by now if average was your ceiling. Or if you thought it was.

Where are you just mediocre? Leadership? Relationships? Parenting? Fitness? Maybe it’s just in a micro-area within one of those macro-areas. Like your fitness is mostly good, but you don’t sleep enough. Or, your leadership is strong except when it comes to that one team or that one person.

I told that speaker that I’ll stand beside him. It was easy for me because I have people who stand beside me often whose actions are aligned to this. They’ve already declared war against mediocrity whether they’ve articulated it like that or not.

Do you have those people standing beside you? If not, why not? If not, are you willing to be the first?