The difference between being the best and being your best!

Kaajal Gunputh Kaajal Gunputh Nov 9, 2018 1015 0

The difference between being the best and being your best!

The difference between being the best and being your best!
 

Do you think there exist a difference between being THE best and being YOUR best? Well, read on to find out the answer-It could make a huge difference to your quality of life and happiness!

Being the best


Being the best is mostly about winning over everyone in sight and leading, consistently labelled as the champion, the number one.
It’s about beating everyone out there, about winning and losing. Taking the awards, medals; making the teary thank you speech.

Aiming to be the best in your field is a noble aspiration providing motivation and a good way to measure how you are doing. By being the best, we can acclaim for our endeavours and nourish our need to be recognized along the way; furthermore, with hard-work, dedication, plan and a little of luck, we might make it to the pinnacle.

But, if it is the sole focus on everything we do, it could be destructive and exhausting. Time passes and things change, life moves on. Champions lose their magic and fall from the top, one day it all ends. Do you know about F.Murray Abraham? He was an Oscar winner, the best in his field; however, he couldn’t stay at the top forever.

Being the best is temporary. It can take a lifetime to achieve the label and yet only seconds for it to be snatched away. It requires you to abide by someone else’s rules. You need to constantly compare, who is the best accountant, the best entrepreneur; how are they doing things, how did they reach there? At the end, it is exhaustive and disempowering. You do not exploit the best of your talents, you do not exploit yourself, and instead you are busy comparing with others and doing what they have been doing and going ahead of them.
 

Being your best


So you might be thinking, what happens when you try to be your best?

This small change can bring you indescribable happiness, peace and achievement. When you strive to be your best, you set your own rules. The pressure of constant comparison and striving for success goes away. You are now in a one horse race and you decide what determines the winner. You set your own goals and you decide the finishing point of the race.

Being your best means being able to look at yourself in the mirror everyday and proudly say “I am doing my best.” It means learning to enjoy the successes and achievement and accept failures. It means making mistakes and learning from them.

When you strive to be your best, you can easily take a day off and give yourself a break as you are not worried of others going ahead of you.  
Being your best, means you can still set big audacious goals for your life and career, you being in turn more goal oriented and focused as you don’t compare with others. This in turns end your struggles to please others and you get to the top into a self directed journey lived without regrets.

At the end of the day it’s all about being happy and living in peace with yourself- which you can fully enjoy by being your best.
 

How to be your best?

At the beginning of the day, look at yourself in the mirror and say your daily intention loud “I will be the best I can be today.”

Each morning, select the most important thing you would like to get done today and write it down in a journal e.g. “Today, I will write an outstanding blog post.” If you find yourself procrastinating during the day, close your eyes and repeat this 10 times “I am the best that I can be.” Then try to refocus and put your 100% in whatever feels more important to be done. Remember it could be taking a break also, just do whatever feels right.

Before going to bed, look at yourself in the mirror and be honest to youself about your day. If you feel you did your best, congratulate yourself and tell yourself to keep going. If you feel you did not do your best, forgive yourself and work out on how to be better tomorrow. You could do this by analysing where did you waste your time more. If it is on your phone for example, decide to keep your phone far from you while working tomorrow.