Your piping hand shakes for the first fifty cakes. Then one day it doesn’t, and you can’t remember when it stopped.

Skills that depend on steadiness arrive without any announcement. The shaking goes away gradually, across more repetitions than you will ever count, and the exact day it stopped passes unmarked because you were busy working. That is how most real competence shows up, as something you only notice looking back.

Count repetitions rather than days on whatever you are trying to make steady. Expect fifty before judging anything, and keep the early attempts so you can later see how far they sit from the current ones. Stop asking whether today felt better than yesterday.