Wednesday, June 23, 2010

To Be Your Best

To be your best, you need to have a role model, an idea of what the “best” can be.
To be your best, you need to have the willingness to do what is takes to keep learning and improving.
To be your best, you need to pay attention to “mistakes” and “failures” without regret or blame.
To be your best, you need to enjoy the process of learning and growing in the process of mastery.

The best leaders have been well led and have learned to lead themselves well.
The best counselors and therapists have been well counseled and counsel themselves well.
The best coaches have been well coached and coach themselves well with thoughts and words.
The best parents have been well parented and parent themselves well in their everyday life.

The best housekeepers have a picture in their mind of how to create order and organization.
The best teachers have experienced quality teaching and know clearly how they like to be taught.
The best cooks have learned from someone who cooks well and they enjoy cooking well.
The best athletes have admired and observed excellence and so aspire to be excellent.

We are imprinted by our family of origin and those in early childhood, as well as others along the way.
We hold a picture, a vision in our imagination, of what can be when we do what we need to do to succeed.
We must keep faith (confidence) with ourselves and be willing to do the self-correcting work to improve.
We need to let go easily of failure with forgiveness and learning from everyone and everything.


When we seek our “best”, we need to look for, observe and admire others being their best.
We must release judgment and comparison to fully embrace and learn from everyone.
The practice ground is always within our own personal world, with family and friends, and ourselves.
We must consistently focus, practice, explore and appreciate what works to achieve excellence.

Mistakes are opportunities to learn and grow.
They must be embraced with open-mindedness and appreciation.
Negative role models can be effective teachers when we affirm the positive gifts received.
Helping others be their best always strengthens us and we learn how to be better from others.

Forgiveness and acceptance of others values and standards of living comes from recognizing we all have learned from our past.
Simply trying to achieve a better way is a step beyond the limited imprinting of our past.
Lifting ourselves into seeing what can be improved is a valuable step to living our potential.
Appreciating others in their constant improvement and learning enhances and strengthens ours.

To be your best, be willing.
To be your best, be open.
To be your best, be appreciative
To be your best, enjoy the journey.

Your potential is truly unlimited.
Being my best is fun, safe and easy.
Betty Lue