The Fourth Agreement

“Always do your best”

This sounds like something from a Scout meeting – “dib dib dib we will do our best.”

That aside I believe that in a world gone mad where we are taught that we should always aspire to achieve “perfection” this Agreement is just the tonic we need.

The truth is that we are all perfect beings in the perfectly right place at the perfectly right time doing things perfectly! We are already that which we seek to be.

This state of perfection is not some objective standard against which we can be measured in ourselves and on our performance.

As we have seen with the other Agreements we all live our lives in a subjective personal virtual reality. Nobody else in existence has or will see things exactly the way that you do.

This being so then your subjective standard of perfection can only be “your best” which means to the best of your desire and ability at the present moment in time bearing in mind that your best may vary from moment to moment depending on what is happening in your dream of life at any particular point in time.

In any situation where we try to achieve some vague external objective level of perfection we will always be met by frustration and failure.

Why would we in any event want to pursue somebody else’s idea of perfection given the very different and unique perspectives that influence our individual behaviours.

Your best will always be just perfect for you!