Start smaller than you think: define a minimum viable action you can repeat without strain. Next, set a compassionate cadence (schedule beats willpower), and track streaks to make progress visible. Protect recovery—rest is not retreat but maintenance of momentum. Finally, close the loop with brief reflection: ask what to keep, tweak, or drop.
In this way, movement remains gentle yet unbroken, and time can do its quiet work. As Goodall’s path suggests, patience is not waiting for change; it is shaping conditions so change becomes inevitable. When we honor the pace of people and places, the persistent hand is, indeed, rewarded. [...]
