Four Ways to Be Easily Exceptional

Avoid Herd Mentality: To be exceptional, you must be different. You are seldom unique thinking like everyone else. Furthermore, avoid herd mentality that is void of tangible benefits. For instance, if people in your community generally eat unhealthy, delicious food, but suffer from the prevalence of cancer, one easy way to be exceptional is to decide to eat healthy foods. The crowd can be wrong.

Do Hard Things: The current population of Nairobi is about 5.3 million people. Now, how many people do you think work out at the gym regularly? A small fraction, I bet. Why? It is hard (and often painful) to maintain a gym routine sustainably, and most people avoid it. This means that if you commit to a sustainable gym routine, you can easily be physically exceptional in 12 or 24 months because most people are not doing it.

One key to being exceptional is doing hard things that most people don’t. Most people won’t read 12 business books in a year, few people care about a strict healthy diet, and if you have a master’s degree in petroleum data management or a rare field, you probably would be among the only five or ten people in 5.3 million in Nairobi. If you accept the challenges that most people reject and succeed at them, you can be exceptional.

Be Consistent: This is one of the easiest, yet largely ignored, ways to be exceptional. Here, you stay on an idea for the long haul. You play the long game by showing up consistently over an extensive period. It’s a strategy that requires patience but pays off eventually. To be consistent at anything, you must truly believe that it’s worth it.

Vet Your Associations: This may surprise you, but your associations affect how exceptional you can be. Exceptional people are careful about their associations. Yes, people matter. Relationships either boost or hinder your progress. Most people don’t vet those in their space; consequently, they suffer unnecessary pain and loss – and get disconnected from their uniqueness. If you’re not careful to vet the people around you, then your goal may not happen. People affect your success; choose wisely.

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