Is doing your best enough?

Is doing your best enough? I wonder. Sometimes it seems that, although you try and honestly believe that you have said and done the right thing, yet the result is totally different (sometimes, even the opposite) from what you would have expected and hoped for. It seems that your action did not yield a positive result. How come? Difficult to say. The problem is that we are all different. My motivations are not the same as yours, and yours are not similar to mine. They might even be in contrast. One of author Anthony de Mello’s little stories talks about a monkey who pulled a fish out of the river to save it from drowining! Wow! Let’s give it a thought.