It’d be nice to be amazing every day: to fix things which need repair, and to improve in leaps and bounds.
A lot of days can’t be like that.
Some days you can only move the needle a little. You start the day with progress sitting at a certain spot, you end the day with progress is sitting just slightly further than when you began.
Some days you don’t move the needle at all. The untrained eye wouldn’t be able to tell anyone had done anything. Maybe even you yourself don’t believe anything happened.
This might not be such a bad thing.
Oftentimes there are phases in a project where it looks like there’s a lull, except it is succeeded by massive growth. Perhaps the gap was necessary to let you adjust your thinking, to realign with the project, to prepare for the work that is about to be done.
Maybe you just needed a rest.
Sometimes there are days where your progress goes backwards. You end off with the general state of things being worse than if you’d done nothing at all.
This might not be so bad either. This backwards step might’ve been necessary.
It’s easy to look at progress on a day-by-day basis, but maybe it’s worth not caring what a day of work amounts to. It might be worth letting this judgement sit still for a moment. How much did you get done in a week? Two weeks? This might show a pattern you need to adjust away from.
For now, just try to move the needle.