New shoes give you blisters for a week and carry you for a year.

New things hurt before they help. Shoes, jobs, cities and routines all have a stretch where everything rubs, and the discomfort is packed into the start while the benefit spreads across a long time afterward. Judging by how the first week feels will make you quit nearly everything.

Give a new situation a fixed trial length and decide at the end of it rather than during. Two weeks, a month, whatever fits. While the trial runs, only ask whether the rubbing is getting better, not whether it has stopped.