Life doesn’t come with a progress bar. That’s why the people who start early and stay steady look lucky later.

Nothing tells you how far along you are, so steady effort stays invisible while it is happening. Years of small consistent work produce a result that seems to arrive all at once, and people call it luck because they never saw the deposits going in. The missing meter is exactly why most people stop.

Pick one thing worth being good at in ten years and give it a fixed small slot every week. Judge yourself on whether you kept the slot, not on how it felt.