This is a realization that I had the other day: when you commit to not “giving them your best” you are, in fact, giving them the best you have to offer.
If you keep “your best” to yourself, then you are living, consciously, a life of unrealized potential. That is one of the saddest, most wasteful things that you can do to yourself. You are robbing the world of you. You are robbing us of your greatest impact just to spite a handful of others who probably don’t really even care. If you feel the need to rob them, then they certainly don’t matter to your best outcomes, do they? The haters will smirk, content that they boxed you in and defeated you. The people who do care, those who you don’t even know yet and who could potentially benefit most from what you have to offer, are the ones you actually wind up robbing. They are the ones who you wind up hurting. You’re giving them the best of the worst you.
Pretty selfish, huh? Even if you don’t care enough about yourself to honor the best “you” that you can be, perhaps some compassion and caring for others might spur you on to action.
Illuminate Possibilities 