Everyone loves the goal on the day they reach it. The ones who get there love it on an ordinary Tuesday too.

Motivation is abundant on the days that feel significant and absent on all the others, which is why results track affection for the ordinary version rather than enthusiasm for the outcome. Anyone can want the thing on the day it is exciting. Getting there is decided by what you do on a grey afternoon with no audience and no particular feeling about it.

Test whether you can do the boring version this week. Same hour, same effort, nothing riding on it, no photograph. If the plain repetition holds up, the goal is largely a matter of time.