Language of Letting Go - August 30 - Accepting Our Best
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Language of Letting Go - August 30 - Accepting Our Best
You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go
Accepting Our Best
We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever.
Do our best for the moment, and then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.
We can never do more or better than we are able to do at the moment. We punish ourselves and make ourselves feel crazy by expecting more than our reasonable best for now.
Striving for excellence is a positive quality.
Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
Did someone tell us or expect us to do or give or be more? Did someone always withhold approval?
There comes a time when we feel we have done our best. When that time comes, let it go.
There are days when our best is less than we hoped for. Let those times go too. Start over tomorrow. Work things through, until our best becomes better.
Empowering and complimenting ourselves will not make us lazy. It will nurture us and enable us to give, do, and be our best.
Today, I will do my best, and then let it go. God, help me stop criticizing myself so I can start appreciating how far I've come.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation.
Accepting Our Best
We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever.
Do our best for the moment, and then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.
We can never do more or better than we are able to do at the moment. We punish ourselves and make ourselves feel crazy by expecting more than our reasonable best for now.
Striving for excellence is a positive quality.
Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
Did someone tell us or expect us to do or give or be more? Did someone always withhold approval?
There comes a time when we feel we have done our best. When that time comes, let it go.
There are days when our best is less than we hoped for. Let those times go too. Start over tomorrow. Work things through, until our best becomes better.
Empowering and complimenting ourselves will not make us lazy. It will nurture us and enable us to give, do, and be our best.
Today, I will do my best, and then let it go. God, help me stop criticizing myself so I can start appreciating how far I've come.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation.
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The great Persian poet, Omar Khayyam, once wrote...
"A man is blessed
who does his best
and leaves the rest
and doesn't worry".
My best is all I can do and it is enough for me today.
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"A man is blessed
who does his best
and leaves the rest
and doesn't worry".
My best is all I can do and it is enough for me today.
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i do the best i can i all situations. i know i have done my best. some may could do better but i have done my best, with this i am satisfied. i will not carry guilt of anything i know in my i is not mine. my recovery has taught me this.
get it, give it, grow in it
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Today is my B'day (well there are 2 more minutes of today.)
I fit the Virgo description of a perfectionist.
This is a good prayer for me today'
"God, help me stop criticizing myself so I can appreciate how far I've come."
Thanks you for sharing this Ann.
I am worthy and I am good enough, just as I am.
I fit the Virgo description of a perfectionist.
This is a good prayer for me today'
"God, help me stop criticizing myself so I can appreciate how far I've come."
Thanks you for sharing this Ann.
I am worthy and I am good enough, just as I am.
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