My goals are already being accomplished.

On a building site the first months produce nothing you could photograph. Drainage, footings, steel going into holes that will be invisible forever. To anyone passing, the plot looks abandoned.

Something similar is happening today, in forms that don't photograph either: the evening spent reading the boring documentation, the awkward email finally sent, the run you didn't want to do.

None of it resembles the finished thing. Foundations never do. They are simply the part of the goal being accomplished now, below the fence line, where nobody claps.