“The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz – the 4th agreement.
“Always do your best”. This last agreement makes the other three possible. In fact, it makes everything possible. If you do your best, you can do anything you want. Your best may differ from one day to another, depending on how you feel physically and mentally, but it always should be 100% of what you can do at the moment; not 20%, not 80%; always 100%.
Don’t say: “I tried, but it didn’t work.” Be like Yoda! Don’t try, do it! If it didn’t work, do it again, and again, and again, until it finally does.
By doing your best you can master your first three agreements. And if you fail to be impeccable with your word, or you make an assumption, you can always do your best again. tomorrow. This way you will practice your agreements again and again, until you become a master in all of them, until it will take no effort at all to rule your life with the four agreements.
If you always do your best, you do not have to feel guilty of not trying hard enough, you do not have to blame yourself for failing on a task, you do not have to tell yourself: “if I only…” You can easily forgive yourself for no succeeding despite of doing your best, and move forward (i.e. do your best again tomorrow). As long as you are honest with yourself (impeccable with your word) and indeed do your best at any given time.
If you found my short version of “The Four Agreements” interesting, make sure you check the original book by don Miguel Ruiz. And if you still don’t have enough, there is a second book written a few years later by don Miguel Ruiz and his son don Jose Ruiz “The Fifth Agreement”.
By Eva Sadowski
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