Your Best is Enough

I think it's sometimes hard to remember that as long as you are giving 100%, it's enough. I can't even begin to list all of the cheesy motivational quotes that encourage this practice.

Mike Farrell: If you try to do your best there is no failure.
Imelda Staunton: You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.
African American Proverb: God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now.
Albert Einstein: We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. 

The compilation of these quotes could go on and on and on. Honestly, as many quotes as there are for doing your best, we tend to forget it, right? I know I do. I went to work out today and we added inclined sit-ups to my legs & core work out. I was supposed to do two sets of twelve. Shouldn't be too hard, right? But after the entire work out, on my second set, I only could get to nine and every sit up was a little less high than the last. 

I was so disappointed in myself. I couldn't do it. 

But then I realized that I gave it the best I could. I couldn't have gotten another sit up out of myself if I'd wanted to. I pushed. I pushed harder than I've pushed since I started my workout journey. So, I guess, that's okay. 

Because my best is definitely enough. It's better than I've ever done before and now the only way to go is up.

Good thing the point of this next year is to prepare for the ultimate trip up: the summit of Pikes Peak!