Growth isn’t a glow-up montage. It’s a hundred unedited weekdays.

Montages exist because the real version is too boring to watch. What changes a person is a long run of ordinary days with no soundtrack, most of them indistinguishable from each other. Nothing dramatic happens on a Tuesday, which is exactly why Tuesdays do the work. The transformation people admire is just a large number of unremarkable repetitions.

Stop looking for the day it clicks and count the weeks instead. Make the ordinary version of the task easy enough to do when you are tired. Look back in three months rather than checking whether today felt like progress.