Momentum is quiet at first. By the time people notice, it’s too heavy to stop.

Progress does not announce itself early because early progress is tiny. Two weeks of consistent work looks like nothing from the outside and feels like nothing from the inside, which is exactly when most people stop. What changes is that the small amounts start resting on each other, and then the same effort produces much more than it used to.

Pick something you can repeat and give it six weeks before you judge it. Track only whether you did it, not how it felt. Around the point where you would normally quit, keep going, because that is where the weight starts to gather.