Small wins don’t feel like much. Stack enough of them and you’re standing somewhere you couldn’t reach before.

Progress is almost never perceptible at the scale you experience it, because each step is small enough to dismiss. The change shows up only in comparison across months, when you notice that a thing which used to be hard is now routine. Feeling unimpressive day to day is compatible with moving a long way.

Keep some record of what you could do at the start, specific enough to check: the weight, the pace, the page count, the thing you could not explain. Look at it every few months rather than every day. Trust the count over the feeling.