Small advances gain significance when pointed consistently toward something meaningful.

A small step is only small in isolation. Pointed at something that matters to you and repeated, it becomes part of a line, and the line is what carries significance. This is why two people can do the same modest amount of work and end up in entirely different places, one having accumulated and the other having drifted.

Check whether your small efforts share a direction. If they do not, choose one thing that would matter to you in five years and let more of them point there. The size need not change at all.