Chasing Excellence
Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

The Speed to Center

Daily Chase #173

Dec 31, 2025
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Photo by Alan Wouda on Unsplash

We all get knocked off balance. Someone criticizes our work. A project fails. Plans fall apart. The question isn’t whether we’ll be pushed off center - it’s how quickly we return.

Rudyard Kipling opens his poem “If” with a powerful image: “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.…

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