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Being at your best!

By Bamboo In The Wind
Giving your best requires, among other things, being at your best.

But the more interesting question is whether "being" comes first or "giving"? It is a tricky question that requires inspecting what each term means to us.

On the one hand, the state of Being represents acting in concert with concurrence with the self. With minimal resistance and maximal acceptance of who we are and what we are about to involve ourselves in. 

We are perfectly ok with what we might do and how we do it and agree with the ramifications of how we might come across. Thus it represents an inside-and-out approach to everything we do.

On the other hand, Giving is a state of acting proactively and deliberately. Working with awareness, care and attention needed; creating circumstances that allow positioning ourselves, minimizing blind spots, and increasing the odds of favorable outcomes. 

It's thus outside and in approach to doing things. You may not always have the desired experience, but you are sure to build bridges by giving yourself first.

Giving your best is guaranteed to create experiences and circumstances of Being at your best!

Venturing into giving starts by offering to act. We need to do it to know what it feels like!

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