How to Create a Personal Culture of Excellence

Key points

There are benefits to creating a personal culture based upon your individual values and goals.

Learning how to coach yourself and developing standardized processes can help.

Incorporate process improvements and self-reflection into your routines for sustained growth.

Coaches and captains spend a lot of time thinking about team culture. That invisible structure guides how people act and what they aim for. However, we don’t always think about creating an equivalent personal culture within ourselves and our immediate environment.

When we establish a personal culture, it allows us to infuse our daily life with our values. We can focus on excellence and safety in the ways that make sense to us. Without that deliberate effort, outside cultures can influence us more than we real