Basketball: Sustainable Concept - "Always Do Your Best."

"You will never regret doing your best." 

Our best won't always be great. Sometimes, it won't even be good. Doing our best helps us honor other agreements. 

Don Miguel Ruiz authored The Four Agreements. The final is "always do your best." Some quotes: 

"If you're doing your best, you will feel good about yourself even if you still make assumptions, still take things personally, and still are not impeccable with your word. 

Your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next. (Situations change.)

As you build the habit of the four new agreements, your best will become better.

But if you do less than your best, you subject yourself to frustrations, self-judgment, guilt, and regrets. 

if you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself. And if you don't judge yourself there is no way you are going to suffer from guilt, blame, and self-punishment.

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward.

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself.

You do your best because you want to do it, not because you have to do it.

Taking action is being alive. It's taking the risk to...express your dream.

Let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment

Everything you have ever learned, you learned through repetition.

I have fallen many times, but I stood up and kept going. And I fell again, and I kept going. I didn't feel sorry for myself."

Comment: When we do our best, we don't need to protect a fragile ego. Don't forgive ourself for preparing, practicing, and our best effort. But if we constantly do our best, our best gradually gets better. And our best flows to every aspect of our lives - how we treat each other, learn, teach, and share.  

Lagniappe: Training our dog, our team, and ourselves isn't so different. Brandon McMillan shared concepts about dog training in his MasterClass. Coaching is similar. 

Lagniappe 2: Rescreening creates a defensive challenge (20 second clip)

Lagniappe 3: a 5'11" prospect with wing skills as an 8th grader, #UnrequiredWork (8 second clip)

Lagniappe 4: I am no religious scholar. We don't discuss politics or religion at practice. But hate your neighbor?