For me, it is doing my best every time, because doing my best is doing the right thing. And when you do the right thing, you don't have to redo or be looking over your shoulder. Doing the right or wrong thing will follow you where ever you go, and depending on your decisions, your life will be heaven or hell. Many of us are living on the right decisions we made 10, 20, 30 years ago, while others are failing on their wrong decisions. When doing your best becomes a habit, failure will be afraid of you. You don't give failure a chance when you do your best, but you do when you don't. Wisdom, compassion, understanding, deep thinking, open-mindedness, and my eagerness to learn different things are what I use to never allow my personal feelings to get into the way of what is right. I am living on the right decisions I made 20 years ago which gave me the power and time to use my brain, my way. I learned that the right attitude gives me the power, while the wrong attitude gives the power to my enemies to use over me. Knowledge is power, but the power of knowledge is useless when it’s wrong, or not used the right way. Life is hard, living is hard for all of us. Each of us, must find our own system and work it. I think I found mine. I study my world and encourage my children, especially my sons, to take the time to know their world if they want to live and survive in it. They are also raised to be independent thinkers. If God had wanted someone else to use their brains for them, he would have placed it on their shoulders allowing easy access. I have lots of perspectives on things because I intend to survive against all odds. I don’t have a choice.