Being your best. In entrepreneurship, design, guidance, leadership, training, coaching, sports, science, art practice, In achieving success. In personal and relational attitudes and qualities. In life inspiration and fulfillment.
Becoming your best is broader than excelling, delivering top performances or excelling in your talent, profession or discipline.
Excellence is a concept that is often associated with a shining ego or with achieving top performances and exceptional or extravagant results.
But what is the essence of becoming your best? Is it simply being the very best at what you do? The self-surpassing step and pitfall of excelling? How does it transcend that?
Becoming your best requires solid foundations. Knowing, recognizing and valorizing what you can do and who you really are or can become. Swearing off who and how you would like or should be, but are not nor can be.
A self-image and sound assessment of what you are good at lays the foundation. So also the realization of what you are not good at, what your limitations and limits are. What you better leave alone. Becoming your best is based on a good self-analysis. On self-knowledge, self-determination and connection with the identity and strength of your talent and qualities. Free from overconfident over- or depressing underestimation. Free from an excessive need for attention and appreciation.
The gift of talent and the skills that we have are used with respect for our own possibilities and carrying capacity. We do not need a society in which even more expectations, idealization and excessive pressure are put under which people succumb to depression, fatigue syndromes, feelings of inferiority and burn-out. Or in which they sacrifice their environment to themselves.
People who excel do so without exhausting themselves or getting worked up. They are not caught in a busy-busy-busy cult nor in an insatiable hunger for challenges and appreciation. Your self is not in the way of the goal of becoming your best.
Being at your best shows an example of self-care, involvement and commitment. In the service of the whole and coherence. Of well-being and progress. Of care. Those who are at their best create and receive the exemplary function of a role model. How we as people can deal with the gift of our talents and disposition. How others also benefit or profit from it.
People who excel contribute to innovation and development. To the possibilities we have to brighten up life. They make progress and seek effective solutions for difficulties and problems.
Being at your best goes hand in hand with responsibility and commitment. Devoting yourself and committing yourself to a goal, a social involvement, a project…
Being at your best is not a goal in itself. More of a focus on being on the road, in which you get the best out of yourself. From what happens to you and what you create.
Fully develop and make your talent and skills, your ingenuity profitable. Do what you are good at. With all the expertise you have.
A common misconception is that being at your best must always coincide with and be synonymous with perfection. Perfection is necessary in some professions and disciplines.
Perfection that strives for flawlessness in order to be approved can lead to both premature exhaustion and freeze and fear of failure. Becoming at your best is not about avoiding mistakes, but about learning and evolving through experiences. You may also choose not to do something because it is not your thing.
Becoming at your best. Optimizing your talent. A continuous process of progress, of correction, recovery and adjustment in which failure is seen as an opportunity to become better.
We become at our best by setting the bar high enough. Just high enough that it remains possible to get over it. Ready for a successful jump. You realize at what height the bar can be set and then set it at that height.
The climate of the times and social plea to lower the bar and focus on well-being, because everyone had to be able to participate and be equal, resulted in the waste of talent in recent decades. Under- or undeveloped talent. In some circles, there was even an aversion to excelling.
Being your best is more about dedication than about passion. Passion can sometimes be exaggerated and blinding or neglect the rest of life. Commitment then begins to backfire. Passion first turns into exaggerated and then into extinguished dedication. Provided it does not slide into counterproductive dedication, healthy passion can be an essential part of becoming your best. Passion supports motivation and dedication. It mobilizes and maintains drive. To persevere, especially when the path to completion is strewn with obstacles or a good result is under the fire of frustration. Dedication gives energy and direction, which enables people to push their boundaries, use their potential optimally and achieve results that they initially did not even think possible. Dedication works persistently without hardening.
Dedication requires an attitude with structure, order and discipline. Becoming your best is not something you achieve by chance or as a matter of course. Rather, it is the result of consistent hard work, focus and perseverance.
Whether it is sports, art, science or business achievements, ... Becoming excellent comes from daily efforts and an unwavering commitment to improve and approach the desired results. When discipline has become a forgotten or unlearned attitude, it becomes your companion again. With an open mind to receive chance and seize unexpected opportunities.
In addition to order, structure and discipline, we need rest to become and remain at our best. Rest contributes to sufficient recovery, staying relaxed and cool during tension, exerting effort in a relaxed manner, …
Sufficient rest keeps the energy in balance and ready to mobilize it when necessary. To nourish, maintain and retain the attention.
To persevere, persevere and complete. If being your best requires anything, it is sufficient rest. Rest that does not rust.
Being at our best is not universal; it depends on context and en-viron-ment. What is excellent in one situation may be less relevant or counterproductive in another.
It is about understanding what is needed in specific circumstances and aligning and responding to that. This requires skills, insight, adaptability, strategy and the ability to innovate rather than simply repeating yourself.
An evolutionary mindset is crucial to achieving excellence. With a spirit of adapting and aligning, changing and evolving, you believe that your talent and capabilities can develop through effort and dedication, through training and learning.
You know how to retain what works well.
You recognize that obstacles are part of life. You do not get bogged down in effort for effort. You see challenge as opportunity and are not afraid to make mistakes. A fresh mind mindset becomes your guide to being at your best.
The essence of being at your best lies in optimizing talent, skills and expertise. Driven by dedication, commitment and dedication. Accompanied by a powerful mind-set and body-connected tools.
Being at your best is not the same as perfection, but rather a journey where setbacks or failure go hand in hand with learning, self-knowledge and perseverance. Becoming at your best is contextual and requires adaptability, intuitive or instinctive sensing and innovation. Ultimately, it is about getting the best out of yourself. Not only for yourself, but also for the world around you.
Engaging with the expertise you have.
Our training and coaching 'Becoming at your best' contribute to presence, embodiment, containment and regulation of the autonomic nervous system.
Directing yourself effectively and efficiently in action, drive and flow as well as in recuperation, rest and re-energizing.
Focusing on commitment and engagement with the expertise you have.
April 2025
Wiel Cabooter
www/wielcabooter.be