Be the best you can be in this moment

“You cannot become the best. You can only remember that you are.”
Hitesh Surujbally

 

I always believed that it was ideal to “be a better person, in which ever way, than you were yesterday.”
However I had the revelation last week that there is a fundamental metaphysical flaw in that statement. Can you see it?
I cannot believe I missed it!
You cannot be better than yesterday, simply because there is no yesterday. There is no tomorrow either. There is only now!

You can only be the best person you can be in this moment, now.

Trying to be better than you were yesterday is also very stressful and a fantasy because your body has an internal biorhythm, physical, mental, emotional. You cycle these rhythms over a period of time from weak to strong. Some days you may be physically strong, and another physically weak. Some days you may be emotionally strong and then mentally weak.

This means you cannot be better than yesterday, not just because there is no yesterday, but also because you were a different person yesterday. Just be the best you can be now. Give it your everything now, go the distance now. Comparing yourself to a perceived past is sure to set yourself up for disappointment. Go to bed knowing that today your gave 100%

You see, no matter what numbers or stats you are after… losing 2 more kgs, running 30 seconds faster, earning 500 dollars more, travelling 250 km further… These have NO VALUE.
What has real value are the things no instrument can measure: Courage, Strength, Determination, Perseverance, Commitment, Passion, Power, Love

Be the best you can be in this moment.

I love you.

Love,
H