Let Your Best Be Enough

This week, we complete our journey through Don Miguel Ruiz's The Four Agreements with the Fourth, perhaps most grounding, principle: Always Do Your Best.

It might sound like pressure to perform or strive for perfection when you first hear it. But Ruiz is clear: This agreement isn't about being the best. It's about doing your best, and what that looks like can change from day to day.

Some days, your best might be focused, energetic, and productive. On other days, your best might look like rest, gentleness, or simply arriving with intention. This agreement invites us to meet ourselves with honesty and compassion, recognizing that our capacity will ebb and flow depending on our energy, health, emotions, and circumstances.

The key is presence. When we give our full attention to the moment, without overdoing or underdoing, we can move through life with less regret, less self-judgment, and more peace. It also means we stop comparing ourselves to others or some "ideal" version of who we should be.

In Don't Chase Your Dreams, Allow Them to Come to You, I discuss this in the context of effort and alignment. So often, we're taught to hustle hard and force outcomes. But what if doing your best means learning when to pause, when to trust, and when to take inspired action instead of frantic movement? When we align with our inner rhythm, our best becomes sustainable, sincere, and deeply rooted.

This agreement gently reminds us that your best today is enough. Perfection is not required. What matters most is the heart behind your effort, your willingness to stay engaged, care, and keep showing up, no matter how messy or quiet the day may be.

Let this be your reminder: You don't have to do everything. You have to do what you can with love and presence. That is, and always will be, enough.