Scroll back to a photo from a year ago. That’s the progress you swore wasn’t happening.

Change is invisible at the scale you live it. Day to day you are compared against yesterday, the difference is too small to see, and you conclude there is none. Distance is what makes it legible, and a year is enough distance to turn an imperceptible drift into something obvious.

Find one honest marker from a year back, a photo, an old note, a piece of work you saved. Set it beside where you are now. Do that once rather than daily, and let it correct the story you have been telling yourself.