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Do Your Best

The fourth agreement of don Miguel Ruiz's Four Agreements is "always do your best." Whatever you do, when you do your best you can sleep at night, you can breathe, you can relax, you can rest assured that your efforts matter. Things will get in the way. Trouble will follow you. People will disappoint you. Never mind. Do your best and keep moving. It's the best we can do. -- doug smith

What If You're Not The Best?

Here's another guest entry from my good friend and fraternity brother David Spiegel. He's knows I'm a big Bruce Springsteen fan, so it won't surprise him that his fine email today caught my attention. Oh yeah, and the message is a winner, too! " A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be" - Bruce Springsteen I was asked "do you regret giving up on music?" The question momentarily caught me off guard. Regrets? Unlike in the song, I really don't know that I have any. I try to never live in the woulda coulda shoulda world that comes when I buy into regrets. When I snapped back to the question my answer was a resounding no, not at all. I shared with my friend my thoughts and feelings and then we moved on. Since then I have revisited the question.  Why didn't I regret it? I was a good musician. No I was a very good musician. I was accomplished,dynamic and one might...