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What, exactly, is my best?

I’m realizing exactly what my best is … this, at 62 years of age.

My best isn’t trying my hardest, or practicing until it’s perfect. It’s not getting younger or honing my skill set. It’s not recruiting the best team.

My best is what I can do in the present moment without fear.

The partner of your dreams isn’t looking for perfect facial features. Your biggest-client- ever isn’t looking for the most years of experience, your “standing ovation” isn’t waiting for you to fine-tune your performance. Preparation may score points. But it doesn’t create the inexplicable!

To be our ultimate best, we can’t rely on the physical. We have to trust the purity of spirit, that which lives and breathes, but doesn’t die.

Doubt and anxiety don’t leave room for trust. And they don’t allow us to be present. They don’t allow us to do what we can do now, fearlessly.

We want to see, and feel, and be our fearlessly, authentic self … whatever that looks like here and now.… More

Forgiveness frees us to move forward, but which way is forward?

To forgive is always the right thing to do, but to forgive doesn’t mean to betray yourself or deny the truth.

If somebody wants a second, or third, or fourth chance, it’s okay to ask, “Why will it be different this time?” And unless they’re able to spill a heart full of evidence as to why it will be different, you can move on without feeling guilty.

Forgiveness frees us to move forward. But it doesn’t dictate that we move forward WITH the one we forgive. … More