Quality is Easy… Give it a GO

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Quality means making things better

One of the easiest means to enhance your life is to enhance quality in all you do.

When you do something better, you are increasing quality. When you make something better, you are enhancing its quality. It does not matter how much better. A little small bit better is still an improvement. Then a little bit a lot more than that next time, and a tiny bit more after that, and the effects add up quickly.

Why do people settle for less? Generally, due to the fact that they are instructed to, by their bosses, their co-workers, by television and movies, and by their own experience. Quite commonly it looks like additional effort is wasted, and sometimes even ridiculed. The “Why Bother?” disorder is very common. This clarifies a great deal about the mediocrity so common in society. To the thinking person, though, it also provides a massive opportunity: the best means in the world to truly stand out from the crowd.

The principle of quality..
Here is the truth, and the very first major concept of quality: Quality is an Attitude.

Quality does not simply happen; it is created. How is it developed? By somebody wishing to do something better. Better than what? Does not matter. The perspective is what matters. Possibly he or she wants to do something much better than their neighbor. Possibly they wishe to do something better than they did it before. Whatever the reason, they have the perspective that produces quality.

Greater quality, by definition, simply means better. Not best, not as good as possible, just better. Exactly how can something be easier? Something placed away rather of being left out. A plant watered before it starts to wilt. A light turned out when leaving the room. A paper clip picked up off the floor. A file compartment closed. Little actions which are much better to be done than not done.

Getting this quality mindset, developing it into your life, is actually really simple. Do you think that something getting better is more preferable to it remaining the same or getting worse? If so, and if you could remember that every day, you have and you can easily enhance a quality mindset. Strangely enough, the stronger it gets, the easier it gets.

Then you encounter the second significant principle: Quality Brings about Opposition. Life and people do have the tendency to put challenges in the way of enhancement. Viewpoints typically vary as to just what is better, or just how you must utilize your time. Some people do not like others to do things better, due to the fact that it makes them look even worse.

So this component of quality may not be so easy. If you aren’t totally applying the first concept of quality, and keeping your quality mindset, this second principle can easily stop you in your tracks.

Attempting to do things right can easily get discouraging when also your best friends are informing you that you are being silly or trying too hard. Knowing this concept, knowing that it is a real concept of quality, you can manage it, by holding on to the very first principle tightly and neglecting anyone who puts you down or gets in your way.

The third major concept of quality is that Quality Takes Time. It does take 3 added seconds to place the staple in the wastebasket instead of brushing it onto the flooring. It takes 2 minutes to double-check the form prior to mailing it. Yet another minute to write neat numbers that other people could read.

What you will learn fairly quickly is that if quality takes time, it provides back a lot more: pride, effectiveness, acknowledgment, and rather commonly it also gives back even more time than it took, since the job doesn’t have actually to be fixed or redone. Time spent on making or doing things a little better is never time wasted.

Above are the 3 significant principles of quality. Usage them, and make your life better. There are much more, and particular actions, however these concepts underlie all the rest. They are simple. They work. Use them.

Greg Onischuk

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