Ten pages a day doesn’t look like anything until it’s thirty books by next year.

Small daily amounts are invisible at the scale you experience them and enormous at the scale you measure them. Ten pages feels like nothing because it is nothing on any given evening. The arithmetic is doing something your feelings cannot detect, which is why people abandon good practices right before they would have started to show.

Choose an amount so small you would be embarrassed to call it a goal, and attach it to something you already do daily. Then stop evaluating it by how it feels tonight. Check in a season from now.