Long roads reward people who stop expecting every mile to feel important.

Long efforts contain long stretches of ordinary. If each mile has to feel significant, you will quit somewhere in the flat middle, because the flat middle is most of the distance. Letting most days be unremarkable is not resignation. It is what makes covering the distance possible.

Stop auditing each day for evidence that this is going somewhere. Judge by the month or the season. The ordinary days are not a failure of the road. They are the road.