Small wins stack like interest. Nobody notices until suddenly everybody notices.

Gains that compound look like nothing for a long time and then look like luck. Each day adds an amount too small to measure, which is exactly why most people leave during the flat part, and also why the ones who stayed appear to have arrived from nowhere. Nothing sudden actually happened. The curve simply got steep enough to see.

Choose one thing small enough that you cannot talk yourself out of it, and do it daily for a month without checking for results. Judge it at the end, not on day nine when it still looks pointless.