My parents always told me and my sister "all you can do is your best". I used to think it only applied to exams cause that's when I heard it the most, but it's actually impacted me much further than that. School really gave me a lot of issues with perfectionism and feeling like I'm never good enough, and I'm always sending myself into a spiral of self doubt (especially with my last job where there was SO much expected of you even if you were only there once a week). But my parents brought me back down to earth by saying "all you can do is your best", and what they weren't saying but there was an underlying sentiment of was "you can't give what you don't have, and if this is all you can do for today then that's enough. It doesn't make you a failure and it certainly doesn't make you less in our eyes". It's a hard lesson to internalise for me, but a massively important one
