It is Friday

I opened Samsung Notes today and noticed an update. The icon is rounder; folders look larger. It feels a little more “Apple-like” than before. By that I mean an experience that feels almost perfectly considered. If I ever call you an “Apple person,” it means that, from what I can see, you have that quality.

Of course no one is perfect. A capable person keeps refining how they do things and how they treat people. If you keep that habit, it is hard to say where you might end up. You have no fixed ceiling.

Something you cannot do well now can improve quickly if you take it seriously. A mistake may discourage you for a while, but you can recover and try again. Problems are temporary when you keep learning. You need not demand everything of yourself in the short term, and you need not set your long-term hopes too low. So why panic over the problems you can see today?

If our attention is on the right things, we can be grateful each day. Tomorrow will have worries of its own. Today I can ask whether I have grown since yesterday. If I have, that is enough. I need not reshape myself to win everyone else’s approval. At the same time, if someone points out a real fault in what I am trying to do, I should listen and improve.

That is part of what work means to me. I want to be among people who challenge me, rather than feel strong only because those around me do not. Much of my recent pain has come from correcting my own mistakes. It is a difficult stretch, but a useful one.