Nobody saw the nights you almost quit. That’s fine. You saw them, and you stayed.

The hardest part of anything usually happens where there is no audience, late and alone, when quitting would be perfectly reasonable. Staying is a decision made in private, and private decisions do not get applauded. That does not make them smaller. It makes you the only reliable witness to your own work.

Write down one night this year you nearly walked away from something and did not. Keep it somewhere you will find it the next time you are in that mood, because you will be. You are not collecting a trophy, only evidence.