Do The Best You Can

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I share a short, simple invitation to bring out the best of yourself in each moment. May it offer you a map for living more fully, deliberately, and authentically.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host Kory Muscarra and in today's episode we're going to talk about doing the best you can.
0:16.0	More to come on that in a moment.
0:18.0	First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. So he So here's a quote by Wengari Matai who says no matter who or where we are,
0:50.0	no matter who or where we are or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.
1:00.0	No matter who or where we are or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.
1:08.0	And there's something about the simplicity of this that leads to a certain poignancy, at least for me.
1:19.2	I think when it comes to figuring out what to do in the world and how to do it, we can often
1:26.4	complicate that process, especially when we also start comparing ourselves to other people and other resources people have
1:36.4	other capacities, talents, innate or developed that others have. And then we assess ourselves in relationship to what we might do and it can be easy to get
1:49.0	caught up in a judgmental spiral. I don't know if you've experienced that, but I know I have for sure, like, you know, what's the point or that person can do this so much better. And there's just something about this quote that I found striking.
2:06.3	And that's just this call to do the best we can,
2:10.8	given wherever we are, who we are what our capabilities with all
2:15.6	of that that becomes our baseline and can we use that and stand on that platform
2:22.2	hold it all root ourselves into it and do the best we can.
2:27.7	To me there's a certain nobility in that and it feels like a powerful map that we all can follow because it doesn't
2:39.2	require anything other than to meet yourself where you are and ask the best of yourself
2:47.1	from where you are from where you are not asking something that you don't have, not asking you to be something that someone
2:56.1	else is or someone else can do, but based on where you are right now, which won't be
3:01.4	where you are forever, what is the best you can do?
3:05.0	And so that's going to be my invitation to you today as you navigate conversations,
3:11.0	relationships, decisions, having work you need to do. conversations,
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