Consistency looks like nothing is happening until you compare it with a photo from last year.

Change that holds is too slow to see day to day. Progress arrives underneath the resolution of your own attention, which is why steady effort feels like standing still, and why people quit just before the part where it shows. The only comparison that reveals anything is a wide one, measured in seasons rather than sessions.

Record where you are now with a photo, a time, or a number in a notebook, and then stop checking for a while. Judge the habit by whether you did it, not by how you felt afterward. Look back in a few months instead of on Friday.