Sunday, June 13, 2010
Aim to be the very best at everything you do---not second best.
Wow. What a tall order. This is a seriously difficult thing to aim for--and deliberately so. If you go to work, then do your job as well as is humanly possible. If you are a parent, be the very best parent possible. If you are a gardener, be the very best gardener you can be. Because if you aren't, then what are you aiming for? And why? If you set out to do something, anything, and you are deliberately aiming for second best, how sad is that? This Rule is really simple, really easy. Let's take parenting, for example. What is the very best way of parenting possible? There are, of course, no right or wrong answers here, it's entirely a subjective assessment. What do YOU think the very best parenting means? good. now are you going to aim for less than that? Of course not.
And the same is true for everything you do. You aim to be the very best that YOU think is possible. Once you become the judge, the panel of experts, it is very easy to live up to those expectations because they are entirely yours. No one else can say whether you have failed or succeeded. no one else can set the criteria for what you are about to embark on.
Failing is fine. Aiming for second best isn't.
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