Excellence is not cheap.  It is not easy.  It is the hard road.  It is the long road.  Yet, in the end, it is worth it.  We have a value at Living Waters which has carried over from my high school days – “Excellence is Our Minimum Standard.”  It use to be at the bottom of every letterhead and every report card.  It was always in our faces.  As high schoolers, we could even define excellence. As leaders, we shouldn’t live without it.