Dear Reader,

I am stuck on excellence. I got stuck as I contemplated my life, my job, and my career and considered what my focus should be in the new millennium. Repeatedly the word excellence flashed in my head.

On the first day of the year 2000 I wrote several principles of excellence. The next day I wrote more. I did not know where the writing would lead until I began sharing the principles with friends and clients, and they asked for copies of them.

I present here 104 principles of excellence. They are not just principles for working but also for living. Why 104? Well, that's where I got stuck.

Dana LaMon
Lancaster, CA