Why bother? Isn’t it a lot of extra energy and effort to do your best?

When you look around, there seems to be a lot of people doing only the minimum to get by . . . they are doing only what is expected of them and no more. This is not the way to enjoy feelings of personal satisfaction.

We do our best for one simple reason. It feels good. In fact, doing our best is the most efficient way to continually feel good about all aspects of life. When we are committed to doing our best, there is no room for regrets.

Second-Guessing

If you give something a half-hearted effort and it fails, you will always wonder about it. The inevitable problems that always accompany grand plans often overwhelm luke-warm effort. You will always have a nagging regret that it may have turned out better, if only you had done your best.

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” - Duke Ellington

If you do your best and it fails, oh well . . . at least you did your best. No regrets. If you did your best, it’s easier to let it go, move on and do your best at something else.

As an example, let’s say you’re interested in starting a new business. You decide to dabble a bit, try a couple of methods, and see what happens. If it doesn’t work out, you will always wonder what might have happened and what additional freedoms and abundance you might be enjoying now, if you had only done your best then.

Instead, if you are committed to doing your best, you either do it and give it your all, or you don’t do it.

“There is no try. Only do.” – Yoda

If you did your best and the business fails, there will be no lingering doubts about your level of involvement. No fault. No blame. No foul. You did your best. It didn’t work. So what? Release it, move on, and find something else that you would enjoy giving your best to.

“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and *then* do your best.” - William Edwards Deming (1900-93)

Your Best Is All About Enjoyment

When you do your best, it’s not drudgery. It’s not a chore. It’s not a prison sentence.

It’s a dance you do with the universe . . . it’s your way of allowing life to flow through you without ego getting in the way and pinching it off. That’s what doing your best feels like. It feels effortless, painless and easy.

When you do something you don’t want to do, it’s all too easy to feel coerced, manipulated and resentful. When you give something a half-assed effort, it’s not satisfying in any way.

Even if you perform such an action just to get it over with, upon completion, you still don’t feel good about yourself. Why? Because you didn’t do your best. There was no flow, no feeling of being in the zone, no personal satisfaction . . . either during the action or upon completion.

Your Best Changes

Your best gets better with practice. Also, your best is better at different times of the day. Maybe you’re a morning person. Your best at midnight probably isn’t up to par with your best before noon. With practice, you learn when you can perform your best and plan your most important actions to make the most of your prime time. It’s simply a matter of maximizing your effectiveness based on your experience of knowing when you can deliver the best of your best.

At other times, you don’t have to be concerned about it. Why? Because you did your best. No regrets. End of story.

Your Best is Good Enough

It’s self-defeating to try to do better than your best. For instance, if you fixate upon meeting the standards of someone else’s idea of best, you run the risk of burn-out. You may deplete your energy reserves and do more harm than good by trying to live up to some fuzzy standard of someone else’s best. If you go over the top, trying to do better than your best, you introduce unreasonable expectations, which adds stress and makes it more difficult to do your best.

“Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.” - Sam Ewing

Your best is good enough. Just do that. Some will like it. Others won’t. But you will feel good.

That’s the bottom line anyway. We all want to feel good about what we do, how we do it and who we are. Feeling good begins with doing your best. No less and no more.

Guilt-Free and Blameless

By doing your best, nobody can blame you, or pronounce you guilty, or judge you . . . especially yourself. Your commitment to doing your best at whatever detail you are doing now is enough. So cut yourself some slack.

No self-guilt. No self-judgment. No self-blame. Just do your best and silence all those energy-sucking internal voices forever.

Like a Reed in the River for Water to Flow Through

When you do something, you are providing a conduit for the energy of the universe to experience the pure joy of action. When you get out of the way, and allow your best action to flow, everyone and all of life wins. Action allows you to express who you are.

“A reed in the river,
For water to flow through.
A hallow reed.
It’s just as it has always been.
And I am only a reed, a reed in the river,
A reed in the river of life am I.”
- from the song, “Story Belt” by Tupelo Kenyon

Do Your Best to Manifest through Action

Ideas, schemes and dreams are a dime a dozen. But taking your best action on your ideas is an expression of life on the physical plane. Without your action, manifestation has its hands tied.

Focus your thoughts, feel your passion, then act upon your dreams by doing your best with single-minded purpose. That’s the recipe to enjoy the power of creation flowing through you.

Do Your Best Now

You can’t do your best yesterday, and you can’t do your best ten years ago. Your commitment to doing your best is applied to this present moment. Don’t dwell in the past.

Take a brief glimpse backwards now and then, just long enough to notice how your best may have produced better outcomes. Return to the present and apply that thought to right now, and do your best now so you’ll never have to wonder about it in the future.

Some people look back and say, “If only . . .”
Instead, look forward and say, “What if . . .?”
Do your best and find out.

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When is it best to ponder, and when is it best to take action?

Perpetual pondering without action is also known as daydreaming. Being consumed by action without the proper mental and emotional preparations is ineffective at best and a waste of time and energy at worst.

How do these two components of manifestation work together and how do we determine when it’s time to quit thinking about it, roll up our sleeves and get to work?

Effective Learning Involves Thinking . . . AND . . . Doing

Doing allows us to internalize what we are learning and really “get it.” Until we actually do it, we only possess a mental idea of it and don’t actually know it.

“I hear, I forget.
I see, I remember.
I do, I understand.”
– Unknown

In medical school, they use this method:

See one.
Do one.
Teach one.

Just seeing something or hearing about it isn’t enough. To understand it, you must do it. To thoroughly understand it, you must teach it.

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” - Joel Barker

How Does it Feel?

When learning something new, you’re opening yourself up to new ideas, new sensations, new understandings and new emotions. All of these must be assimilated along with the raw information.

To take effective action on what you’re learning, you have to feel good about it. Your feelings are providing you with immediate feedback about how well the new information fits with your current idea of intention, passion and purpose.

If you are contemplating a new action based on something you’ve recently learned, this is a good time to pay attention to how you’re feeling. If you think about the course of action spawned by new information and you feel excited, inspired and enthusiastic, you know you’re on the right track.

If it makes you feel despondent, hesitant or doubtful, that’s giving you a good clue. If you feel uninspired, depressed or have no energy to act on what you’re learning, it’s important to pay attention to that. Either continue with more in-depth learning to see if enthusiasm dawns naturally, or change course. Learn something else that motivates you to take inspired action.

Yak Yak Yak

Taking action about what you’re learning is a good way to assimilate the information . . . up to a point. Continuous chatter without action is an energy drain. If it fits and it feels good, what are you going to do about it?

At first, discussions may help to gather your ideas, energy and momentum to help launch you into action mode. At a certain point, if discussion drags on, action fizzles out. The energy leaks away and the potential for momentum evaporates.

“What you do speaks so loud, I can’t hear what you say.” – Unknown

It’s common for us to form committees, organize focus groups, cuss and discuss our problems, ad nausium. With this exponential focus, problems grow. The Law of Attraction can be described as . . . whatever you give the most attention to, related to any subject, grows in your experience.

“Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.” - Edward de Bono

That’s why people of action, accomplishers, highly functioning individuals rarely indulge in talk-fests. Once the new information has been reasonably synthesized, and the internal guidance system has given the green light via feelings of inspiration and enthusiasm, more talk just gets in the way. It’s time to get to work. Do something.

“Think like a man of action. Act like a man of thought.” - Henri Louis Bergson (1859-1941)

Even if the initial actions are not optimum, do them anyway to begin accumulating momentum. You can always come back later and re-do anything you’d like to improve, in light of additional experience. But for now, just begin.

Learn a little. Do a little. Repeat.

“Be cause . . . it’s more effective.”
– from the song, “Celebrate Life” by Tupelo Kenyon.

“What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations … is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one’s own efforts.” - Hannah Arendt (1906-75)

When you feel inspired and enthusiastic, by all means . . . do something. Often, the first steps are the most difficult, but if you time those initial activities when your enthusiasm is peaking, you’ll have a tremendous advantage to break the inertia of inactivity and tip the scales toward action mode.

One action will lead to the next, and the next, and so on. Soon, your activities will take on a life of their own and the completion of one task will suggest the next.

Continue to monitor how it feels for clues about when course corrections would be beneficial.

Remind yourself what a blessing it is to have the freedom to chart your own course. That’s infinitely valuable, and it’s something not available to all people in all places and all times. It would be a travesty to take it for granted. A good definition of freedom is the ability to spend your time acting on your choices, rather than reacting to the choices of others.

“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.” - Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944)

New outcomes are manifested by a combination of new information, well-learned, with attention regularly directed toward how you feel about what you are learning. This honest and objective feedback from your internal guidance system can help you take the right action at the right time.

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I’ve found it helpful to think of two separate entities who inhabit my body. First, this is an important distinction. You often hear of someone claiming to “have” a soul. The viewpoint inferred by this choice of words begs the question, “If you have a soul, who is having it? The body? The mind?”

To me, it seems more accurate (and more useful) to think about it the other way around. That is, soul is who I am (who we all are) and we now have a body.

Even though I identify my sense of self with soul, there seems to be another “something” inside forever jockeying for position and making its presence known. This is the ego.

What’s the difference? How can you know which one is in charge? What are their characteristics?

Soul’s Attributes

Soul is all about peace and contentment. Soul perceives the outer world through the five senses via the mind. Soul perceives the inner world through knowing, feelings, emotions, hunches, nudges, dreams, daydreams, inner sight and inner sound.

“Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul! They are its actions, but they are not its essence.” - Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC) - Egyptian king

Ego desperately needs to be right. If it can’t be right, the next best thing is that it needs others to be wrong. Ego is alone and unconnected to others. It is driven to compete with all the others, so that it can be recognized as best. If not best, at least better. The ego’s sense of self is wrapped up in titles, awards and achievements. It must be continuously recognized by others for its accomplishments and special-ness.

Ego’s Characteristics

Ego needs stuff – the more, the better. It is identified with possessions and the perceived prestige that accompanies them.

“Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera; it is the ego they cannot forgo.” - Gandhi (1869-1948)

The ego is engaged in a never-ending striving for more. It is never satisfied, never content, and never at peace. In fact, those things are considered threats to the ego – if you were totally peaceful, why would anyone need an ego? Ego may delude itself into thinking its striving, pushing and shoving is driven by a longing for peace, but the truth is, its striving is driven by the love of striving.

Ego Needs – Soul Is

Peace and contentment is the domain of the soul. Soul doesn’t “need” anything and is perfectly happy just to be. Soul is fulfilled by its attention on the present moment and whatever circumstances come with it. Soul has no longing for things or awards or recognition or outcomes. These are all in the realm of ego. Whatever it takes to remain peaceful, that is the objective of soul.

Soul does not shrink from experience – in fact, it relishes experiences that allow it to grow in awareness. Therefore, soul doesn’t mind possessions – it just remains detached from them with the understanding that they are all temporary.

“The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.” - Bhagavad Gita (c. BC 400)

All possessions are loaners, to be enjoyed in the moment, and easily released when it’s time. Possessions come and possessions go – the sense of being “I am” remains to experience each of them in the moment of now. From the viewpoint of soul, all things are temporary playthings, capable of providing amusement and a richness of experience, but never to be allowed to get in the way of peace and contentment.

Relatively Peaceful Coexistance

I notice both of these viewpoints active within myself on any particular day. Even though I have made the conscious decision to identify with soul, ego elbows its way to the forefront quite often with its petty needs and inconsiderate attitudes.

It doesn’t have to be an on-going, internal war between the two. To function in the world, we seem to need both soul and ego. The problems arise when the ego is allowed to run amuck in an unsupervised manner. When ego is under the watchful eye of soul, a workable balance can be achieved.

“Our ego is our silent partner–too often with a controlling interest.” - Cullen Hightower

Shrinking Ego / Growing Soul Visualization

When I was first learning the benefits of meditation about forty years ago, I often pondered these two seemingly opposite viewpoints that co-existed in my head and heart. I realized that ego could be put under the control of soul and eventually began to enjoy occasional success at deliberately choosing soul as the captain. It’s not easy (ego is a relentless competitor), but with diligence and discipline, an ever-increasing percentage of moments had soul in the driver’s seat.

“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.” - Deepak K. Chopra (b. 1946)

In meditation, I focused my attention on a mental image of soul and ego. In my mind’s eye, I saw each of them as glowing orbs of light roughly equal in size, filling the mental screen. I noticed as I was successful in diminishing the size, power and importance of ego, its orb shrunk and soul had more room to grow into. It seemed so simple . . . as “A” shrinks, “B” is allowed to expand.

It was a helpful image that now, forty years later, I still use. I don’t think of it as an inner battle that will someday be won or lost. Instead, it is a spiritual exercise that reminds me that both soul and ego are necessary to function in the world.

“Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass.” - Owen Felltham (1602?-68)

Since I prefer peace to mayhem and contentment to perpetual, blind striving, my goal is to keep soul in the driver’s seat as often as possible. Instead of an either/or situation, I like the idea of soul and ego peacefully coexisting in a manner that best serves the greater good. Communication between the two is encouraged, so as often as possible, balance is the outcome.

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-86)

In my meditations, I still envision the ego shrinking which automatically allows more “room” for soul to grow into. And whenever I notice a strong desire to be “right” or notice a thought of superiority or an urge for needless competition, I try to remember to take the old ego down a notch and allow soul to resume its rightful place in the driver’s seat.

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