When your best isn’t good enough, your best has to get better.
Trying your best is admirable. It probably even helps most folks sleep at night. But when your best is just plain not good enough, you don’t get consolation prizes for not closing the deal or losing a football game. When your best continually frustrates you because it is not yielding the desired results leaves you with three options and what you decide says a lot about you.
1. Keep giving it your best in the same manner you always have: This is a lot like hitting your head against a wall. You will lose a lot of blood and either the wall will come down or you’ll go down… How long can you keep hitting it with your head?
2. Quit giving it your best: This will be hard at first, but eventually you’ll be OK with it… and there in lies the problem.
3. Make your best better: This approach, this attitude on life will define you. That wall mentioned in #1? You’ll figure out how to go in, around, over or through. As Randy Pausch said, “Brick walls are there for a reason.” You may lose some blood. Figuring out how or digging down deep enough wanting to make your best better may take a long time. But ultimately because successful people continue to be successful people, their best will become better.
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