Cute..Revise..Execellence...

October 11, 2010

A little boy once went to a telephone booth while he was at a store and

dialled a number after asking the store owner. The store owner who was

observing the boy listened to the conversation between the boy and the

person on the other side. The boy had called a lady who had hired him to

mow the grass at her lawn.

The boy did not reveal his identity to the lady. He told her he had called

to ask if she could employ him to mow the grass in her lawn to which the

lady said she already had a person who does the job.

The boy tried his persuasion skills by telling her he would mow it at half

the price to which the lady refused. So he said he will not only mow the

grass but also sweep the floor and the stairs of the house for the same

pay. Yet the lady refused by saying that she was extremely satisfied with

the person who was doing the job and she was not looking at hiring anyone

else.

With a smile on his face, the little boy replaced the receiver. The

store-owner, who was listening to all this, walked over to the boy. He

appreciated the boy about his positive attitude. He even sympathized and

offered to give the boy a job at his store. The boy just replied with a

thanks and said he didnt want the job. The store-owner, totally surprised,

asked him why he refused when he was pleading for the job to the lady he

had called.

The store owner was very impressed with the excellent reply the boy gave

him. The boy said " No Sir, I was just checking my performance at the job I

already have. I am the one who is working for that lady I was talking to! "

The boy knew he was good at his job but here all he did was checked with

his employer if she also thought he was an Excellent Performer! He was

self-analyzing his level of excellence which most of us fail to measure

thinking the employer would anyways appraise us during timed appraisals.

So are you self appraising yourself ?

" Excellence is not always being perfect but about excelling in what you do

in the best way you can. " --

KEEP SMILING not because of something but inspite of everything.

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