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    The Excellence Book: 50 Ways to be Your Best
    The Excellence Book: 50 Ways to be Your Best
    The Excellence Book: 50 Ways to be Your Best
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    The Excellence Book: 50 Ways to be Your Best

    By Kevin Duncan

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    We can all be better in every aspect of our lives. Kevin Duncan (author of the bestselling The Diagrams Book and The Ideas Book) draws together 50 ingenious thoughts and inspirations to improve your attitude, your approach to life and work, the questions you ask, the decisions you make, and even your timing in the things that you do. We are the owners of our success, and the main source of that success is excellence. Practical and highly accessible, this is a life-affirming handbook to help you be the best you can be - whoever and wherever you are.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLID Publishing
    Release dateAug 17, 2023
    ISBN9781915951083
    The Excellence Book: 50 Ways to be Your Best

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      Book preview

      The Excellence Book - Kevin Duncan

      INTRODUCTION

      Five years ago, in the original book introduction, I explained that with everyone so frantically busy, I had responded by writing shorter and shorter.

      The idea was that, in this format, anyone can grab some inspiration in less than hour, and sometimes in less than a minute.

      Since then, a lot has happened in the world, and the topic of mental health has become important for almost everyone.

      The time is right to bring different perspectives to the subject, by involving my daughter Rosie who can offer views across the generations.

      People often ask us where we get this stuff from.

      The answer is: a little from everywhere.

      We call it being a mental magpie.

      You won’t notice any of it if you have your head permanently buried in a screen.

      The Excellence Book aims to help you be the best you can be and fulfill your potential in work and life. Anywhere. At home, at work, with your family.

      It’s not a competition. It’s about quality.

      Good luck applying these ideas, and, as ever, do let us know how you get on.

      Kevin Duncan

      Westminster 2023

      A WORD ON ATTITUDE

      Attitude is either a settled way of thinking or feeling about something, or truculent or uncooperative behaviour.

      It’s your choice how you view the world.

      Some people wake up angry with everything,

      and carry that stress on through the day.

      Others are calmer, and generally have a better time of it.

      It really pays to decide what your particular attitude is.

      It can transform your life.

      A negative attitude gets you nowhere.

      A positive attitude can get you anywhere.

      Experiences help. So does listening to those of others.

      You can then apply the wisdom to your own circumstances.

      Here are ten suggestions to help you decide your perspective.

      1.

      DISENTHRALL YOURSELF

      On 1 December 1862, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his annual message to Congress. The country was in the middle of a civil war. He concluded:

      The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

      Disenthrall. It’s an interesting word.

      To enthrall means to capture someone’s attention.

      This could be good or bad, depending on what exactly is attracting your undivided attention.

      To disenthrall means to discharge, free, emancipate, liberate, loosen, release, unbind, uncage, unchain or unfetter.

      So, if you are obsessed with perpetually doing or seeing things in a certain way, you may first need to disenthrall yourself to stand any chance of changing your attitude.

      Only then will you have a chance of seeing other possibilities.

      In order to change any of our own habits and behaviours, we must first become aware of them. From this perspective, we can analyse whether that’s how we would, or wouldn’t, like to respond to any given situation. Next time you find yourself reacting badly, note down what happened and how you behaved. When you have some time for reflection, look at this from an outsider’s perspective.

      ASK YOURSELF

      What are your triggers and what did you learn about yourself?

      2.

      YOU ARE WHAT YOU DO

      There is no point in claiming to have a certain attitude, when your actions either fail to prove it, or worse, contradict it.

      As Aristotle said:

      We are what we repeatedly do.

      Thinking is one thing. Doing is quite another.

      Gina Miller, the businesswoman who initiated a court case against the British government challenging its authority to implement Brexit, said:

      What’s the point in having a conscience if you never use it?

      The popular blogger and author Mark Manson, points this out in his unsubtly named book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a

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