“Next time, I want to do better.”
Fine. What will you do differently?
That is where improvement becomes interesting to me.
After a good result, it is easy to set a bigger ambition. But ambition alone gives us very little to work with tomorrow morning.
A specific observation gives us much more.
In sport, perhaps a movement needs a clearer preparation. Perhaps the timing can improve, or the same quality needs to hold through the final part of the performance.
In a project, perhaps the team needs information earlier. A decision needs better evidence. An explanation needs to become clearer.
These are things we can work on.
I believe in pursuing excellence. Perfection does not exist, and “everything must be better” is an exhausting instruction that tells us almost nothing.
Choose something that matters. Understand what would improve it. Give it a place in the work.
A successful performance can be celebrated and examined with the same enthusiasm. Looking closely does not take anything away from what we achieved. It helps us see what becomes possible next.
For me, raising the standard means being increasingly precise about what we ask of ourselves.
Enjoy the result.
Then give “better” an address—somewhere you can actually go to work.
Silvia
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