The Art of Excellence
Isn't Sexy
People want to place things on pedestals, it’s human nature, and in Human Design, my type is consistently placed on one that is higher than it should be.
I am a 5/1 Manifesting Generator. The 5 line is often referred to as the Heretic.
With that said, I’ve been no stranger to backlash throughout my youth and adulthood. My obscure way of thinking and sharing challenges people, always has, always will. This is why I love human design, it brings you to realize the things that you were unaware about and the story of the creator is quite interesting in itself. The topic of today’s blog is not to deep dive further into human design, if you want to do that, I do advise you to contact Ean and book a reading as the $88.88 investment is worth it. If you have further questions, contact me via DM on Twitter or on this platform.
Today I want to talk about the simple misconceptions of excellence, the many misinterpretations that come with it, and the broad ignorance of many that claim such, including myself. Excellence is an art form, a lifestyle, a pursuit, the investment of a lifetime. If you so choose to become one of excellence mastery, you do so by seeking an absolve to your flaws, or to better correct them to become ‘less flawed’.
The Art
With Excellence pursuit, from the exterior, it is a Monet. An oil to the canvas, crafting, while many keep their easel vacant. A Monet is not ‘perfection’ but it is Art. It is revered not for it’s “excellence” but for it’s beauty, which in turn, creates it’s excellence. That is the Art of the process within Excellence. If you keep your easel vacant and strive for nothing, then the Monet within your life will never be produced. If you sit in the rocking chair, with that vacant easel in front of you, on your porch, with your blank canvas perched against your façade, then you will be no more than the man who wishes to orchestrate a symphony, begging for instruction on how to orchestrate a symphony when simply, you must orchestrate it. You cannot go around begging for change when you simply can move into the act of change.
The Excellence
With Art pursuit, there will never be excellence. That is the point within Excellence and the reference to Claude Monet. If we marry Excellence to Perfection, we may as well marry our Destiny to Disappointment, or Dreams to Inaction. Nothing will ever present itself as you wish, you have to imagine that even the scenery Monet painted across many canvases was ever moving. Do you believe when a lily continued down stream that his paint brush too, continued down stream? That would be ignorant.
In the face of changing external circumstances, we cannot change from within to adjust to the things that are attempting to ruin our painting. We must persist in maintaining the original vision we set out for. Is that to say that Monet never ripped apart a canvas due to changing environment? No. We have to assume that we can adjust when needed. It’s like saying you’re going to move a 5,000lb rock without any equipment but your strong man cells. If you’re able to move it an inch, well you’re a fascinating human, but everyone looks at you in perplexity when you’re trying to move a 5,000 lb rock.
What no one perplexes at is the man carrying a 5 lb rock. They walk past him like anyone else. It is only when, you’ve moved a 5lb rock one thousand times, to the same destination, to construct your masterpiece that people take notice and say “Wow - look - he has moved 5,000lbs of rock - how is this possible?”
One Rock At A Time.
This is the pursuit of Excellence, the art of it. You have to make moves that no one seems to care about, but you have to do that everyday. You have to do it through rain, hurricane, tornado, and sun, no matter what the weather may be, one day, you will have won, the battle against the 5,000 lbs of rock you set out to conquer.
Now that is a lot of metaphor for one blog post so let’s cut it back to a more understandable level.
In the pursuit of excellence, you must treat it like a canvas. Start with the blank canvas AND PLACING IT ON THE EASEL. Get out of the rocking chair and start painting.
You’re not going to craft a masterpiece in 20 minutes. It may take 5 years, and 5,000 trips from the coffee machine and back to the easel. The important part is that you start painting that which you wish to chase as personal destiny. It doesn’t mean you can’t put down your greatest life’s work and start a new painting, just make sure you don’t treat that too, like your life’s greatest work - otherwise, you’ll be tripping your destiny into a later arrival.
As much as I can point to this and that, the truth is, treating all of your acts as art that you are able to begin at any point is a beauty.
Each step is another brush stroke, the more you put the brush in your hand and willingly flow on the canvas, the more your final painting comes to fruition. One day, you’ll find it hoisted in a frame 🖼️.
So in any pursuit in life, make sure you seek to do it excellent. It doesn’t matter if you’re framing a home or scrubbing shit off a toilet, it is imperative to perform excellence as a duty to those around you in community and in passion. Those who innerstand the dedication it takes to do the work will admire you, those who choose to not participate in the game will resent you. It’s the unfortunate circumstance of life. What they cannot deny however, is the painting you created that sits amongst the greatest in the Louvre.
Cheers 🥂
