Doing Your Best: Engaging With Absolute Intention To Do What Is Required
Preparation and practice are fundamental to doing well, yet doing our best doesn’t demand excellence as much as it demands intention to do as well as possible under the circumstances.
Doing our best means engaging a presenting situation with the absolute intention to deliver what is required – for example, the advance intention of shooting the arrow into the bulls eye. It means not holding back, never giving less than you know that you can, refusing to be a slacker, and always persevering.
Half-hearted efforts are exactly that: situations where someone has refused to put his whole heart in. Focus, attention and complete presence are optimal, and living in the moment predicts doing your best.