“The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success and in more fruitful areas.” (Melvin Powers) Like the army recruiting poster, one of your goals is to, “Be All You Can Be.” The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance and below average rewards, under achievement, failure and frustration for below average results. In our economic system, your income will be determined by three factors: first, what you do; second, how well you do it; and third, the difficulty of replacing you. One of the qualities of top people is that, at a certain point in their careers, they decided to “Commit to Excellence.” They decided to be the best at what they do. They decided to pay any price, make any sacrifice, and invest any amount of time necessary to become very good in their chosen fields. And as a result of this decision, they pulled away from the pack of average performers and moved themselves upward into the income category where today they earn three, four, five and ten times as much as their peers who have not made this commitment.