I embrace any progress that I can make.

Any is doing a lot of work here. Any includes the small, unglamorous, barely visible kind: the reading log that says four pages, the walk that got as far as the postbox and turned back.

Progress that size is easy to discount because it doesn't feel like anything. Yesterday it was zero. That gap is the whole distance that matters.

The measurable part turns up months later, and by then you won't be able to point at the day it began. It began on the four-page day.