Why You Should Always Do Your Best | The Four Agreements - Part 4

You may have noticed this but when you’re doing your best, you are usually in a good mood. Because when you do your best you’re not frustrated with yourself, frustrated because you’re being lazy or feeling unmotivated.
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Transcript:
Under any circumstance, we should learn to always do our best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be exactly the same from one moment to the next. Everything is changing all the time, so sometimes your best will be high quality, and other times it will be more like the movie Suicide squad. Mediocre.
When you wake up refreshed and energized in the morning, your best will be better than when you are tired at night. It will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick, sober as opposed to drunk, or happy as opposed to sad.
And while the quality might change, keep doing your best, exactly your best. Because when you try too hard to do more than your best, you deplete your body and mind and it will take you longer to accomplish your goal. It’s like spending 4 hours at the gym doing squats and then having to recover the next 5 days. And if you do less than your best, you subject yourself to frustrations, self-judgment, guilt, and regrets. I’m sure we all know what it feels like when we get stuck in that rut and it sucks. The only way you pull yourself out is to let go and start over with doing your best.
When you do your best you’re taking action because you love it, not because you’re expecting a reward. And most people do exactly the opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward. And that’s the reason why they don’t do their best.
For example, most people go to work every day thinking of payday. They can hardly wait for the day that they receive their money and can take some time off. They are working for the reward, and as a result, they resist work. They work so hard all week long, suffering the work, suffering the action, not because they like to, but because they feel they have to. They have all that frustration, and when they do receive their money they are unhappy. They have two days to rest, to do what they want to do, and what do they do? They try to escape through simple entertainment because they have no energy left. And that’s not a fun way to live.
On the other hand, if you take action just for the sake of doing it, without expecting a reward, you will find that you enjoy every action you do. And rewards will come, but you are not attached to the reward. If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are enjoying life. Then, we have fun, don’t get bored, and don’t have frustrations.
Action is about living fully and Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expression. You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward.
So what’s the trick? Is there a quick way to automatically always do our best? No. I’m afraid not. But if I’ve learned anything from studying my own habits is that it starts with awareness, and then taking consistent action because of that awareness. And slowly it will become a habit.
This, then, is the Fourth Agreement: Don’t make assumptions. Thank you for watching my video!
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