{"id":3344,"date":"2017-04-10T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2017-04-10T11:06:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T11:06:47","slug":"doing-the-best-we-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/2017\/04\/10\/doing-the-best-we-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing the best we can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been the year I embraced audio books. I don\u2019t know why I didn\u2019t get on it sooner. Maybe it\u2019s because when it comes to books, nothing beats holding a book in my hands. The book that I recently finished listening to is Bren\u00e9 Brown\u2019s <em>Rising Strong<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I related to so much of what is touched on in this book! The thing I want to talk about in this post is the concept that we are all doing the best we can in each moment. This concept isn\u2019t new to me, but hearing it in the context of the stories Bren\u00e9 tells really got me to thinking.<\/p>\n<p>I asked a couple of the people in my life what they thought about this concept. Some thought it was fair to assume that we\u2019re all doing the best we can, others thought it was impossible. I think the struggle is knowing that we can always do better, that there\u2019s always room for improvement.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the point of the concept that we are all doing the best we can in any given moment isn\u2019t to say that there isn\u2019t room for improvement. It\u2019s simply saying that we\u2019re doing the best we can <em>today.<\/em> If you are sick, exhausted or overwhelmed with a massive to-do list, your best isn\u2019t going to be the same as it would be if you were in the best health, well-rested and delegating what you can\u2019t manage. Can we do better? Of course we can. We need to establish an environment both internally and externally for that to happen.<\/p>\n<p>I love Bren\u00e9\u2019s sharing of her husband\u2019s thoughts on this concept of everyone doing the best they can. He says that he\u2019s not sure if he believes this concept to be true for everyone, but he knows it makes him feel better when he does. The truth is that we don\u2019t know what\u2019s really going on in the lives of the people around us. Maybe that person who cut you off last week just lost a family member. Perhaps that co-worker that hasn\u2019t been much of a team player lately is having troubles at home.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know what personal struggles others are dealing with. It\u2019s not our business to know. What we can do is work on our own compassion. Instead of getting angry because of what someone did or didn\u2019t do, consider that they are doing the best they can in that moment. Rather than beat yourself up about mistakes you\u2019ve made or disappointments you\u2019ve caused, remind yourself that you are doing the best you can and there is always room for improvement.\u00a0\u2665<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been the year I embraced audio books. I don\u2019t know why I didn\u2019t get on it sooner. Maybe it\u2019s because when it comes to books, nothing beats holding a book in my hands. The book that I recently finished listening to is Bren\u00e9 Brown\u2019s Rising Strong. 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