How To Consistently Do Your Best

How often do you really do your best? Honestly?

In this short 5-minute quickie, we dive into a simple but powerful way to consistently show up at your best — without pressure, without overthinking. It's all about the magic of the pause.

Just a few seconds between tasks can reset your focus, break negative carry-over from the last thing you did, and set the intention for doing your best on the next.

You'll learn:

• Why your "best" should be your baseline, not an exception

• How a 2-second pause can change the quality of your whole day

• The role of feelings and intention in achieving your personal best

• A quick reflection practice to avoid carrying stress from one task into another

It's not about constant improvement. It's about consistency.
And when you do this, life feels better, easier, and more rewarding.

Give it a try today — and share this with someone who could use a reminder to hit their best more often.

https://personaldevelopmentunplugged.com/fmq-515-how-to-consistently-do-your-best

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And the transcript WARNING if you're a lover of the written word this may make you frustrated, or angry - you have been warned - is it an 'ism

Hey, welcome back to the five minute quickie, Amuse. Amuse, just for five minutes.

 

On today, how can you, me, constantly do our best? Consistently do our best. Constantly, consistently, both the same. Got to do our best.

 

I was thinking about it. I was journaling about it. Because I looked back over yesterday and realized, yeah, I didn't quite do my best.

 

And it's not the, can I? Constant and never-ending improvement, which means doing better than your best. But it means just doing your best. Because we can't, or we could, we could always do 1% more.

 

But if nothing else, surely our best should be the bottom line, the minimum bar. We should be able to get above that. We certainly should hit it more times than enough.

 

And then when I was looking back, I looked back over yesterday, didn't quite do it. Didn't quite do it. Some things I did, and some things I didn't.

 

And I bet if you just looked over your day, say yesterday, did you do your best on everything you did? Bloody difficult, isn't it? It is bloody difficult. So what do we do? What do we do? It's how to think. How to think.

 

So I want to know how I can do my best through the day. Because the day is split up into little compartments, isn't it? Each one is a different thing. We're doing different things.

 

We've got different aims, different goals for each one. So how are we going to do it? How are we going to remember? Because I think we need something like a pattern interrupt. And what's one of those? Well, you interrupt the pattern.

 

And the pattern is, we just flow sometimes from one to the other. You know, I'm doing something, and then I just go into the next thing. And when you go into the next thing, it's as if you're not thinking.

 

You think you're thinking, but you're not really thinking. That makes sense, doesn't it? It does. So what can you do? Well, I think it's like meditating for two seconds.

 

It's the magic of the pause. Yeah, I talk about pause so many times, and it is a magical thing when you do it. And the pause doesn't have to be long.

 

I talk about pausing, you know, for a couple of minutes, three minutes to see the beauty of the world, to listen to hear everything, be present in the moment. But all I'm thinking of now is a two second pause, or one second pause to go, I finished what I've done. Am I happy? Can I be grateful of what I've done? Did I do my best? If I never did, what can I learn? And then, you know, you take another breath.

 

And then you think, now what am I going to do? What do I want to do? And how good do I want to do it? Set the bar. What is your best? So you don't flow from one to the other and let things just, you know, because sometimes when you do a shitty job, and you go to the next one, you've got to break it, haven't you? Because if not, you just take that shittiness with you. So we break it with a two second pause, maybe slightly longer than two seconds, isn't it? Maybe four or five.

 

But we can all spend that. So when we finish, it's just about going, I finished. Did I do my best? Can I learn from this? Can I take it further? Do I need to just spend a little bit more time to reassess what I've done? Or am I happy where I am? And then move on.

 

And it's also a time to celebrate. A mini celebration, say, well, you know, I'm moving on, I've done that thing. And I'm now go