Some of the best success stories are just people who kept one promise to themselves for ten years.

Unusual results often come from an unremarkable commitment held for an unreasonable length of time. Not intensity, not talent, just the same modest thing done long past the point where anybody was watching. A decade of a small promise beats a year of a large one, and it is far less interesting to describe. Consistency is the least exciting answer and usually the correct one.

Choose one small promise you could realistically keep for years rather than months. Twenty minutes, four days a week. Make it easy enough that you would still manage it on a bad day.