Don’t do your best.
Do what you can right now with what you have right now.
Do the best that you can do right now, not the best possible thing, not the best thing you have ever done, not the right thing, not the thing that will get you the least made fun of, not the thing that looks coolest to other people.
Just do the best and funnest thing you can think of and get done in the next 5 seconds.
The trick is to be making concrete, continuous progress. That means:
- Doing one real, doable thing
- right here right now, and then
- returning to (1)
It does not mean batting 1.000. It does not mean endless deliberation, theorization or arguments to convince the world that you are on the right course — them be a waste of time and energy. It means showing up.
We do not have infinite time and energy. We don’t have so much that we can waste them. But we do, as it turns out, have just enough to do some good.
Don’t do your best. Do some good. Make some progress.
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