If you only celebrate finish lines, you’ll spend ninety percent of your life unimpressed.

Almost all of life is the middle part. Finish lines are rare and they last about an hour, so anyone who only celebrates completion is signing up to feel unimpressed by nearly every day they get. The middle is not a waiting room for the good part. It is the actual material.

Find something to mark this week that is not finished. Halfway through a project, the third week of a habit, a small improvement nobody else noticed. Say it out loud to somebody, because unshared progress has a way of disappearing.