February yards look dead. Underneath, the roots are busy getting ready for spring.

Growth spends most of its time invisible. A bare yard in winter is not an empty yard, it is a system doing the part that happens below the surface, where nobody claps. People in slow stretches make the same mistake a plant would make if it could panic, which is confusing no evidence with no progress.

Find one measurable thing you can check monthly instead of daily, like pages read or reps completed. Log it somewhere plain. When the visible part shows up, you want a record proving it was not sudden.