What Does Your Best Look Like?
Updated: Oct 31
Last week was the word. This week is the action.
Always do your best. Nothing more. Nothing less. And understand that best will change from day to day.
The teaching
If a thing is not truly important, we have said this before: automate it, delegate it, or eliminate it. What remains deserves your best — not a performance of someone else’s best.
One of my favorite days was a 52-mile stretch of the Tour de Nebraska when I was in the best shape of my adult life. Crystal clear: I did my best.
Another week I lay in a hospital bed after a herniated disk, wired to a pain pump, living three days an inch at a time. Was that my best too? Absolutely yes.
Phoning it in is how we insult both days. Best is honest effort in the body you actually have this morning.
Research is catching up to what the agreement already knew. People who set out to do excellent work put in more real effort and get better results. Once that is true, the extra demand of “it has to be perfect” does not improve the day. It just costs more. Always do your best. Nothing more. Nothing less. And know that best will change.
How to begin
Name what is actually yours to do today.
Drop or delay what is not important.
Give the remainder your honest best — even if today’s best is small.
This week’s Life Challenge
Do your best in all things, understanding that your best may change from day to day. Still do your best.
You can decide to do your best. You still need a place that meets you on the strong days and the small ones.
The app does not grade the ride. It holds the practice — a check-in, a short routine, a way to show up when best looks like a hospital bed or a fifty-two mile tailwind.
Still do your best. Thirty days. No credit card for the trial. Come practice.
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