<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" alt="Chris Widener - motivational speaker and author" title="Chris Widener - motivational speaker and author" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/chriswidener-07.jpg" />Some time ago, I spoke to a group of salespeople in Kansas City as they kicked off their new team. It was exciting to see them get excited about making a difference through their work.</p>
<p>The topic they assigned me was &#8220;Simply the Best.&#8221; So as I prepared, I asked myself, &#8220;What characteristics would help someone pass the &#8220;Best&#8221; test? That is, what are the characteristics of those who become the &#8220;best&#8221; at what they do? Here are the thoughts I shared with them: <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2008/02/the-best-test-by-chris-widener/" title="Permanent Link: The &#8220;Best&#8221; Test by Chris Widener" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":9,"date":"2008-02-26T22:09:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T03:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/02\/the-best-test-by-chris-widener\/"},"modified":"2020-12-20T23:26:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T04:26:07","slug":"the-best-test-by-chris-widener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/02\/the-best-test-by-chris-widener\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Best&#8221; Test by Chris Widener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Chris Widener - motivational speaker and author\" title=\"Chris Widener - motivational speaker and author\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/chriswidener-07.jpg\" \/>Some time ago, I spoke to a group of salespeople in Kansas City as they kicked off their new team. It was exciting to see them get excited about making a difference through their work.<\/p>\n<p>The topic they assigned me was &#8220;Simply the Best.&#8221; So as I prepared, I asked myself, &#8220;What characteristics would help someone pass the &#8220;Best&#8221; test? That is, what are the characteristics of those who become the &#8220;best&#8221; at what they do? Here are the thoughts I shared with them: <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/02\/the-best-test-by-chris-widener\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: The &#8220;Best&#8221; Test by Chris Widener\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}