You’ll know you’re growing when the things that used to make you panic just make you busy.

Growth rarely feels like getting better at things. It feels like the same situations costing you less, so the shift that used to wreck your stomach is now just a shift to get through. Your capacity moved, not the difficulty. That is also why progress is easy to miss: nothing announces it, you simply stop noticing what used to be unbearable.

Think back to something that frightened you a year ago and ask what it would cost you now. If the honest answer is time rather than dread, that is your evidence. Write it down, because next time you panic you will want proof that this one passes too.