Every day I work to be better.

Better than whom is the question that sinks people. There's always the colleague fifteen years in who makes the hard part look like nothing, and measuring against them is a guaranteed loss.

The only workable comparison is yesterday's version of you, who had less information than you're holding right now.

And better rarely means visible. Most days it means you handled one exchange with a little more patience than you would have managed last year. Nobody notices. That's still the unit this is actually measured in.