A garden can’t be rushed, only tended.

Some things respond to effort but not to speed. You can water a plant every day and you cannot make it grow faster by wanting it more, and pulling at the stem only breaks it. The work is small and unglamorous and spread over a long stretch: watering, weeding, waiting. Growth happens on its own schedule while you keep the conditions right.

Look at the thing you are most impatient about right now, and swap the question. Instead of how long until this is done, ask what tending it looks like today. Do that one piece, then let the day close.