Be grateful for the version of you that exists right now. Every future version is building off this one.

Whoever you are today is the raw material for everyone you turn into later. It is easy to treat your current self as a rough draft, something to be embarrassed by until the improved model shows up. But the person doing the improving is this one, with exactly the skills and nerve you have now. Nothing gets built on a self you are busy resenting.

Name two things you can already do that fourteen-year-old you could not. Keep that list somewhere you will see it on a flat day. Liking where you stand and wanting more are allowed in the same week.