As I look back on this past week, I see such evidence of how easy it is for our ideas to largely stay disconnected from our actions. I probably had more than thirty conversations with people who were espousing certain theories of action, but were living incongruent with their own impassioned pleas of what “our” conduct should ubiquitously look like. This isn’t the first time that I have recognized this tendency. I wish that I could find in my own life greater faithfulness to my ideas of how I should live. There are moments that somehow I feel justified in expressing outrage with this condition shared by all, and sometimes I do regardless of my consciousness of personal infidelity. My question is what links together intention and right actions that produce results in a timely fashion? In brief: our best effort in every moment. I have heard it said that excellence is doing things a little bit more, a little bit better than I just did it. Think about how different our lives would look as we practiced with a discipline toward just being a bit better than our last effort. As I look at it, the beginning point of improvement is in acknowledging reality as it is . . . even if it is merely the gap between our ideas and our actions. I think therefore I am, or as I act, I am?