Your lane feels slow because you keep looking at theirs.

Progress is invisible from the inside. You experience your own life at full length, including every dull hour, while other people’s arrives as a series of finished events, which makes their pace look effortless. The slowness is largely an artefact of where you are standing. You are comparing a process with a summary.

Try a week of measuring against your own last year instead of anyone else’s current one. Write down what you can do now that you could not do then, since you have forgotten most of it. Then put your eyes back on your own work, which is the only place they are useful anyway.