Wins feel smaller than you expected. That’s not a bug. It’s a hint that the climb was the good part.

The flatness after you finally get something catches almost everyone off guard, because you spent months imagining the moment and none of it imagining the day after. What was feeding you was the work itself: improving, aiming, having somewhere to put your effort. A result is mostly the day that work stops.

Before the next thing you want arrives, name what you will miss about chasing it. Decide roughly what you will point at next, so the week afterwards is not an empty room.