Something Is Better Than Nothing
We admire athletes because they strive to do incredible things, looking to outdo themselves and one another, breaking records, achieving things no one in the past ever had.
But there are only a few dozen of them on the playing field. There are thousands of us watching.
We look up to strong business leaders because they blaze a similar trail to those athletes: they want to be the best, they charismatically seem to have unlocked a whole new level in making money and producing exciting new ideas.
But most of us are just going to work - even while work is also trying to tell us to strive to do our very best for their sake.
We get a lot of direct and indirect messaging telling us we need to be the best. Not to mention the nonstop advertising that tells us we'll never be the best without their miracle product. (-_-)
Tonight, I went to the gym, despite being very tired. This week has been wild and all I wanted to do was go to bed early. But I knew I'd benefit if I went. I ignored my instinct to go to bed and went out anyway. The point wasn't to do my absolute best. The point wasn't to be better than anyone else.
The only objective was to do something.
If that's all I have left, that's what I'm doing. I don't need to be the best. I don't even need to do better than I did last time. It's important to me that I get some exercise and I did. The only thing I feel the need to be better than is doing nothing (and even that is perfectly OK if that's all you've got).
The same applies to business or reading a book or anything else. No one needs to be the best at anything. Just aim for something.