You can’t see the hour hand move. Look back after an hour and it’s somewhere new. Progress works the same way.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Change below a certain rate is invisible to direct observation, which is not the same as being absent. Watching yourself closely and often guarantees you see nothing, because a single day is too fine a measure to show movement this slow. The only instrument that works on it is distance.

Stop checking daily on anything that moves over months. Mark a date now and promise yourself a proper look then, with something recorded from today to compare it against. Between those two points, judge the work by whether you did it rather than by whether it shows.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What would you see by looking back a whole year?

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