Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life

by Jim Murphy

Most of us have been playing the wrong game our entire lives. We’ve been focusing on short-term wins, temporary happiness, and surface-level achievements, when we were created for so much more. We’ve been playing a zero-sum, finite game, with a winner and a loser, a beginning and an end, when it’s really an infinite one. Life is meant to be a journey connecting with others, growing together, discovering new and amazing things, rather than a game of constant comparison and competition, always trying to fit in or be successful. We’ve been setting our sights too low, going for the low-hanging fruit on a single bush, when entire orchards await. Which game have you been playing? The best possible life—absolute fullness of life—is one with extraordinary experiences, deep, meaningful relationships, and, most of all: love, joy and peace. These three “resources” lead to an abundance of fruit that multiplies into so much more: peace becomes patience, patience becomes kindness, then goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and, ultimately, self-control.