Archive for March 7th, 2021
The Four Agreements IV
The fourth agreement in The Four Agreements is to “Always Do Your Best.” Making this agreement a routine, a habit, assures the implementation and success of the other three.
We don’t try, we do. Often we hold ourselves to unrealistic standards. Believing, for example, that we can watch TV all day yet still find the time and energy to meet the day’s demands. Conversely, we may believe that always doing your best means that always performing prodigiously is a personal standard. Both of these beliefs are inherently flawed.
One cannot twitter away the day and expect to not be rushed, frustrated and unhappy with chores, commitments and goals left undone or only partially completed. Likewise, always doing our best does not mean performing at the same level regardless of what is going on in our life at the moment. For example, you cannot be at the same energetic level of action when your are ill versus when you are in top physical condition.
What is imperative is doing your best in the moment, regardless of whatever circumstances the moment brings. There is no more. There is only the best effort in the moment for the conditions of that moment.
Don Miguel says, “You can only be you when you do your best. When you don’t do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you.” “If you always do your best over and over again, you will become a master of transformation.”
