What Is The Best Way To Do Something?

When people want to Improve their Lives, their Businesses, their Teams, and really anything else, there is a common question that is asked.

"What is the best way to...?"

Finish the question with whatever you are looking to accomplish.

I understand the question, I truly do.

We want to be the Best at things, as Efficient as possible, and to get to a Result without any Problems.

However, this Question leads to defeating Results for 2 reasons.

The first Problem is that, often, the "Best" way to get to something is not often in Reach for the Majority.

For instance, what is the "Best" Diet?

In today's world, it would generally be one where you grow or raise all your own food, harvest it, and is in a location extremely secluded from other farms in a way to prevent potential cross-contamination.

If that's your Goal, go for it, but over 99.9999% of people either have no desire to do that or don't have the means to do that.

Either way, it's out of Reach.

The second Problem is that often there is no such thing as a "best" way to do anything.

There are so many nuances and conditions in Life that make it Impossible to have "one" best option.

Usually, there are variables we can't know and different options that exist which have different likelihoods of success, but none of them are the "best".

Often the closest we find is more "Optimal" toward what we are looking to Achieve.

So if the question of "What is the Best Way..." is self-defeating, is there a better question to ask?

Indeed there is.

"What is the next step toward something Better?"

See, we generally are too Focused on something that is out of reach, when what is perfectly in reach is right before our eyes.

The people who become the "best" at anything, don't get there because they found a "secret formula" that fundamentally changed everything.

What makes them the best is that they find ways to do things here and there, better and better, step by step.

They inherently understood there isn't one "best" way, but a gigantic multitude of "better" ways.

Each step they took got them a little bit further than others around.

Along the way they also find some things don't work - either at all or just for them.

There are many times when something works for one individual, team, or business but it doesn't work for others.

So, they go back to the question, "What is the next step toward something Better?"

Each little step forward, each move toward Better, takes them further and further away from the masses.

Before you know it, people will wonder what "your" secret was to something.

It's strange when people ask you that question because you'll look back and second-guess yourself.

"Did I have some secret thing that I didn't realize?"

But you didn't.

You'll think about it and realize it was a LOT of little things along the way.

Some of those things you may point out as exceptionally helpful to you.

But it was the combination of little "Betters" along the Journey that got you to becoming one of the Best.

If you really want to go about the "best" way to do something, look at what is truly available to you where you are at this moment.

Then, choose one thing to Improve and go from there.

If others try to convince you that "their" way is the "only" way, you'll find that they are just trying to sell you something (that likely won't work).

Take things one Better step at a time, and you'll soar far more quickly than you realize is possible.