DBT Informed Peer Connections

Abandon hope of results and always do your best. The only commitment is to do our best in any situation. We get so caught in expectations - judgments about what we should or should not feel, or what we should or should not be able to achieve, for instance - that we lose the opportunity to be present in the right-here-now.
Results certainly come out of effort. But there is so much of that which is beyond our control. A yoga teacher I know recently framed it in terms of working towards a particular pose - it's not about achieving the pose, it's about being able to feel or way into it, find our boundary of what is helpful our hurtful, find our balance of what is right for us in this moment.
The point is to focus less on the expectation and more on the effort of being present and responsive in this moment.
~David Edmonds