Your body changes at the speed of seasons, not the speed of notifications.

Bodies work on a slow clock. Strength, stamina and recovery adjust over weeks and months, while the rest of your life now runs on a device that updates every few seconds, and the mismatch makes patient progress feel like no progress at all. The pace is not a fault in you.

Choose a horizon that matches the process rather than the screen. Look at what changed over a season, not a week. Keep going during the stretch where nothing appears to be happening, because that stretch is where most of it happens.