Are You Giving Your Best? And If Your Not, What to Do About It.🥇

Published: Tue, 08/01/23

The Best Preparation for Tomorrow is by Doing Your Best Today.

H Jackson Brown Jr.

In a world where everything moves quickly, I constantly ask myself if I’m doing my best. One of the things I’ve learned is that everyone’s best isn’t necessarily good enough.
If you’re happy with it, great.

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Just Do Your Best.

The problem arises when you enter the world and encounter arenas where the standards differ. That’s when your best is meaningless. Here you need to meet or surpass the communities standards. Only then is your ‘best’ even considered acceptable.

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Writing Speculative Fiction forces me to adhere to specific standards of quality. My best when I came into the industry was irrelevant. I had to adapt to what readers expected and then strive to surpass expectations.
To do your very best, you must be engaged in something you are passionate about. Because if I know anything about life, my best will never be the same over time.

It’s a work in progress.

So the question is, have you been giving your best?

If you have any doubts and you feel you could do more. Here’s what I think?

So the first practical thing I would do on my journey of doing my best is to reframe the idea of ‘best.’ Instead of viewing it as a static benchmark, see it as a dynamic and ever-evolving process. Recognize that your best today might not be the same as your best tomorrow. Embrace the notion that improvement is a journey, not a destination. This perspective relieves the pressure to achieve perfection and opens the door to continuous growth and self-discovery.

Another thing I noticed on my quest to do my best is the practice of “productive discontent.” Allow yourself to feel a healthy dissatisfaction with your current accomplishments, not out of self-criticism, but as a driver for progress. Channel this discontent into setting ambitious yet achievable goals, and approach them with a strategic mindset. By leveraging dissatisfaction constructively, you propel yourself forward, surpassing what you once thought was your best to your actual best.

By now, you’re realizing giving your best requires a degree of vigilance. The path to exceeding our best is paved with consistent micro-improvements. If I was to ascribe my success to anything, it would be this philosophy. Kaizen, a Japanese concept that advocates continuous small changes, is a powerful tool. Identify areas in your life where you can make incremental enhancements and commit to taking daily, measurable actions towards your goals. The cumulative impact of these seemingly minor changes will surprise you, pushing you beyond your previous limits.

Giving your best demands stepping outside your comfort zone. Embrace the unfamiliar, as growth and transformation lie beyond the boundaries of the familiar. Seek out opportunities that scare you, for it is in discomfort that you cultivate resilience and adaptability. Stretching your boundaries will not only help you achieve breakthroughs but also redefine your perception of what you are truly capable of accomplishing.

Let me leave you with this thought that eloquently sums up what we’ve been talking about.

“The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.” — Benjamin E. May.

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