The challenge of excellence, achieving it consistently.

Let's take an example: Imagine you are perfecting your molten chocolate cake recipe.

No matter how many attempts: the ultimate level is reached.

The nature of the ingredients, their quantity, the order of incorporation, the type of cooking, its settings and duration, the cooling temperature, everything counts.

Professional pastry chefs know all these elements and many other details perfectly.

Excellence is not about achieving it once.

Excellence is about achieving it every time.

When you reach a new level, you will have a new reality and new requirements.

Others will too, those for whom you do it.

But most importantly, it redefines your estimation of quality each time.

Everything comes to be re-evaluated based on what you know now, your new level of mastery of the subject.

In coaching...

And even more so on orientation issues, amateurism, half-heartedness, lack of understanding of the impact of your questioning, your stance, is not acceptable.

You must move from an influence whose content, scope, and effects you do not understand, to a mastered influence.

No, you cannot overlook this fundamental aspect.

And in this quest for consistency towards excellence, it must become a central question.

This question of mastery is not technical. It is ethical.

But this consistency is relative, therefore unattainable, it is in the effort and awareness that everything plays out.

When you are a pastry chef, the object of your work is fixed.

When you work with humans and their goals, it is fluid and evolving, session after session.

You should not look back and contemplate with satisfaction the path traveled, but forward and in your practice.