“Do your best” usually means reaching a fixed ceiling. Innocent turns it into something that keeps moving. Each real attempt raises the bar: “My best effort becomes one of my worst, as soon as I make another effort.”

So the standard you answer to doesn’t exist yet — you make it by trying. Not your best as a known limit, but a new best, every time.

The scale is a single day. Better than you were yesterday; better again by tonight. Multiply that across months and years, and the small daily gain becomes a life of progress. The only person you’re competing with is who you were this morning — and because that best can always be re-made, it’s always yours to make.