One bee makes a teaspoon of honey in its whole life. A hive feeds itself for winter. Scale is a team sport.

Individual output can look negligible while the collective result is substantial, and both things are true at once. Your contribution measured on its own will almost always seem too small to matter, which is a problem with the measurement rather than the contribution. Anything that carries through a winter got built from many small deposits made by people who could not see the total. Nobody’s teaspoon was the point.

Put your work where it accumulates with other people’s rather than where it stands alone. Then stop judging a day by what you personally produced in it.