Are you doing YOUR best?

Growing up, whatever challenges I faced, whether it was grappling with my studies, mastering the violin, or learning how to play a new sport, my mother always told me the same thing: “Just do your best!”

Mum told me she didn’t care what mark I received at school, as long as I had done my best and given my all.

This is not about being a slave to perfection.

Rather, this is about taking pride in everything you do. It’s about infusing everything that you do with all your love and care.

Life Coach, Martha Beck is famous for coining the quote: “How you do one thing is how you do everything”.

Whether it’s listening to every word that comes out of your child’s mouth with 100% of your attention and not multi-tasking or thinking of your to-do list.

Whether it’s cooking a meal that your family will enjoy, and not just throwing something together that will qualify as a meal. That meal does not have to be complicated or cordon bleu.

Whether it’s writing an email and re-reading it for any typos, grammatical errors or ambiguities that could detract from you’re the quality and power of your message.

The list goes on and on.

How you do one thing is how you do everything.

Cicely Tyson, one of my heroes both as an actor and as a human being, passed last year at the age of 96.

Just a week before she passed, Cicely Tyson sat down with Gayle King on the CBS Morning show for an interview. Tyson was still working and busy with various projects.

I loved this interview. Especially when Tyson spoke about how when presented with a new script, she would read and re-read it hundreds of times, until she became the person she was portraying.

Take a look at that fascinating interview here:

Eerily, Gayle asked Cicely how she wanted to be remembered, when her time to leave this earth would finally come.

Cicely replied: “That I’ve done my best”.

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