You should make it your habit, your way of life, to always put your above average foot forward. Simply enough, just by doing it. Say what needs to be said, in the way it needs to be said. Do what needs to be done the way it needs to be done. If you don't know what needs to be done or how to do what needs to be done, again put your above average foot forward and do what you believe needs to be done.
Nature always honors honest effort.
There are too many above average people accepting average as their standard. I know it's hard to break out, but break out we must. I know the gravitational pull of average is strong, but the resolve to rise above average in the above average person is stronger. We need to develop a real distaste for average. Talking about it is not doing it.