“You Do Your Best, That’s All You Can Do.”

Last Updated on April 5, 2019

Today was hard. It was the kind of day that shook my confidence in my ability to what I do for a living. I’m wondering if I need to start over and do everything differently. It is going to be fine, but it feels intense right now. Sometimes there is a much wider gap in understanding between myself and a client than I am aware of. Sometimes the same words mean different things to different people and we don’t realize it. Sometimes I don’t know how to fix what’s broken or how to find the right person to help. Even after years of learning how to explain what I do and how I do it, there is evidently a much better way to be learned. I’ve been here before many times and I’m sure I’ll be here again. I know that when I get myself in “hot water” that means I am breaking through to another level, failing forward, growing and learning a valuable lesson. It’s humbling to bump up against my limitations. I want there to be someone to blame, even myself, but there isn’t. Misunderstanding, insufficient communication, and too many assumptions are the guilty parties, the usual suspects.

The amount of communicating I do everyday is overwhelming and also never enough. The amount of information I have in my head about all the different projects I’m working on is massive and I can’t keep track of it all. I am a detail oriented and organized person, but I need even better systems. It might be that I need to hire more help and that I can’t do everything myself anymore…hmmmm. I’m not going to figure it all out tonight. I don’t really need advice. I just wanted to share a very human and lifey thing that is happening for me today. My mom always says, “You do your best, and that’s all you can do.” I did my best today. I’m going to do my best tomorrow and the next day too. Goodnight!