Success: is it in the Middle or the Extremes?

What separates a great wait staff from a great menu?

A great wait staff should consistently execute at a very high level, but there should be no surprises. An amazing customer experience is defined more by the lack of things going wrong than by anything truly exceptional happening; get my order right, be knowledgable, be on top of the drinks, smile a little bit and don't spill on my lap and we will be all good.

While the execution of a great menu should be very consistent, the items themselves are an entirely different story. In order for a menu to be truly exceptional, you better accept the fact that some people will thoroughly hate it... everybody leaves McDonalds content with the food.

The secret to success in the weightroom? Get there consistently and make yourself a little bit better than you were last time... it's not about getting there once a month and destroying yourself that one time.

How do people look pretty damn good all year round? They have a great idea of how much they are eating and don't sweat a little chocolate or beer... they don't alternate super strict(depending on your goals, some periods of super strictness may be called for) and binging days.

The mark of a truly shitty live band? Everybody leaving saying it was pretty good. I want to see a band lay everything on the line, that means I should leave with my jaw on the floor... either because it is the most epic thing I have ever seen or because it was utterly attrocious.

In a presidential race among a unanimously liked candidate and 2 candidates despised by half the country and adored by the other half, the unanimously liked candidate will lose every time.

Finding where success exists in a situation doesn't guarantee success, but missing where it exists guarantees failure.