“MAKE THE MOST OF YOURSELF, FOR THAT IS ALL THERE IS OF YOU.”

Were you ever the best at something?  At school were you the best runner, the best speller, the best performer in the school play?  Have you come top in exams, been the best in interview, achieved the best sales record?

Best is the highest position you can hold, it is a great achievement, but if being best comes easily to you it cannot be classed as a victory. Being best is not always about beating the opposition; it can be about beating your personal best, about being the best you can be. St. Francis de Sales said “Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly”  

If being the best is what you demand of yourself then you can be sure others will expect the same of you, but if you only insist on doing your best, no one will have any expectations and if you always go one step further than you think you can, it may be that you create a reputation for being better than you think you are. Helen Keller wrote “When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another”

There is no limit on how good you can be except the limit of your own self doubt, you can do more, go further, become all you are capable of  becoming. Success in life is never about needing to be the best, it’s about knowing the odds against you succeeding  and doing your best anyway. You would be surprised when someone has become the best they can be, how often others see them as simply the best.

 “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go”  T.S.Elliot

Title quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson