Sometimes doing your best isn't enough (and that's okay)

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Hello, dear friends! Thank you for joining me for this new episode of “Walking with Johan”. I am very happy that you are taking the time to accompany me for this little stroll. Today we are going to talk about personal development, once again like every Wednesday.

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Today I want to talk to you about something that is hard for someone like me to accept. You saw the title of the episode, "Sometimes Doing Better or Doing Your Best Is Not Enough", and I added, because that title wasn't strong enough for my taste, "and that's OK".

Why is it difficult for me to accept? Well, I am a fairly rigorous person, quite Cartesian, that is to say that I like logic, I like systems, and for me, an action must lead to a desired result. It is more or less mechanics. I see it in a very mechanical way. If I make an effort, in front of me, I must have the reward, the result. For me, it is logical that it works like this, like a machine. If I press a button, I know the result. If I turn on my coffee machine, I press the button and the coffee machine turns on. It is normal, it is designed for that.

I like to think or I like to convince myself sometimes, I don't know why, that the world works like that. In general, I can say that it works for me. I tend to be rewarded for my efforts and I tend, when I do something, to enjoy it, to benefit from it.

But of course, as with everyone, sometimes india whatsapp number data there is an effort that is made, sometimes there is work that is done, sometimes I did everything I could do. It was impossible to do more, really. And despite everything, I have a mixed result.

It ultimately reminds us of a beautiful philosophy of life and I think that it also makes life a little bit nicer, because if life was just a system and you could predict everything, that you just had to do something to have a predictable result, it would be a little sad indeed, it would lack a little spice, let's say. So yes, it's certainly better that it works like that.

This life lesson or this philosophy of life is that ultimately it is good to do what you can. You must always, always, do your best. This is what I keep repeating to my children, always do your best and then accept the result and let go. So that, once again, is a very complicated thing to do for someone like me. Letting go, that is to say, "OK. This is how it is. I have done everything I could, and now, I am no longer in control."

There are people… again, I am one of them, I am not here to talk to you only about myself but just to transpose and allow you perhaps, to become aware that this is your case, if it is, or in any case to help you, but the fact of letting go and the fact of accepting the result, it is also something… I arrive at the top of a climb. It is heard, I am a little out of breath. But the fact of letting go, it is also something soothing, it removes anxiety, it removes stress. We are more serene when we let go. And it is applicable for many things, big things as well as small things.