If you are doing your best, what else can you do? And if you are not? Well, how can you be so sure that you are not doing your best? Do you think that your best must automatically involve struggle and strife? Does the definition of 'best' inevitably involve sacrifice? Sometimes the very best thing you can do is nothing - or next to nothing. A policy of 'watch and wait' can be the wisest of all optionsWhen we were children, many of us played a party game in which we all had to stand in a line. The person at the front would whisper a message into the ear of the next child in the row. This child, in turn, would pass it on. By the time the whisper reached the kid at the end of the line, the sentence would have changed beyond recognition. There's been a lot of this kind of unclear communication in your lifeWhat is the purpose of life?  In the process of protecting ourselves against a disaster that really isn't going to happen, we are taking away energy and resources from  situation that deserves all the positive input one can spare. Be less defensive, more assertive. And try to be more trusting!