 The road to awesome goes through a place called Average. I know we all want to get to awesome and bypass Average, but we can't. It is part of our human condition and part of our human journey to go through Average versions of ourselves to have Average performance, Average outcomes, Average behaviour, build Average businesses, Organisations, Churches. Average is a place you have to travel through and because you have to travel through it, it makes awesome all the more awesome when you get there. All go through Average on the way to doing better. Don't despise Average, don't stay there, learn from it, grow, get better, but remember what it was like and it will give you much more compassion, empathy and a bridge you can build to people that are still struggling in some version of Average. The road to awesome always goes through a place called Average and that's okay.