BEYOND YOUR BEST

There are areas in your life that are going well, those that aren't, and those that aren't going as well as you'd like.For the ones that aren’t, do you say: “I can’t do it,” “I’m a failure,” “I’m broken,” “I’m a loser,” “I can’t win”?Pay attention to how you speak to yourself and to the world.

Maybe you're not wrong or inadequate. Maybe you just haven’t completed your journey toward what you want. And from the point you’ve reached, you look back and say, “I failed, I couldn't do it.”But what if the road isn't over yet? Maybe trying something different than what you've done before is the key. Maybe that small shift is what will take you where you want to be.

Maybe you’ll take another step and still not get there. Maybe you'll say "I tried, but it didn’t work again."Or maybe you'll say, "I tried, and I got one step closer. I haven't arrived yet, but I'll keep going."

If each attempt was your choice, and if you refused to give up, which possibility would you choose?How would it feel to truly be the lead role in your own life?

What if giving up wasn’t the only option? What if your breakthrough was just one step away?

Saying “I did my best, and it’s not working” is a choice.Saying “Maybe I haven’t discovered everything I’m capable of yet” is also a choice.

Maybe you have a strength within you, but because you haven’t used it, it has weakened over time.But what if you started using it? Would it grow stronger?

At the beginning of a National Geographic documentary about Einstein, pianist Fazıl Say shares a story:"When I was three or four years old, my parents bought me a toy organ. One day, they realized I was playing the songs I had heard, all on my own. That’s when they knew I had a talent. But talent alone didn’t bring me here. From that day on, I never stopped practicing."

That’s how it is with life. Muscles don’t strengthen on their own—you have to work them.Regardless of your talent, your responsibility is to keep moving, keep improving, and keep strengthening that part of yourself.

You are the source of your own strength.

So, are you willing to say, “It’s working” instead of “It’s not working”?