RULE 18
Aim to be the very best at everything you do – not second best
Wow. What a tall order. This is a seriously difficult thing to aim for – and deliberately so. If you go to work, then do your job as well as is humanly possible. If you are a parent, be the very best parent possible. If you are a gardener, be the very best gardener you can be. Because if you aren’t, then what are you aiming for? And why? If you set out to do something, anything, and you are deliberately aiming for second best, how sad is that? This Rule is really simple, really easy. Let’s take parenting, for example. What is the very best way of parenting possible? There are of course no right or wrong answers here; it’s entirely a subjective assessment. What do you think ...
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