[DanBC]

You appear to he concentrating on the short term - I do so much painting yet I'm not seeing any improvement - and not on the long term iterative nature - I practice a little bit each day, I won't see much improvement day to day or week to week, but I'll see improvement year on year.

You don't say whether your practice is providig challenge or not. That might be a way to improve. Try to set challenges that change the way you work.

[hoers]

This! Only having the long term goal in focus is a perfect recipe for anxiety and depression, setting short term tasks is a good strategy, there are a ton of others that help with dealing with one's thinking, Mindfulness* being the obvious big one but also a lot of learning techniques (e.g. priming) have helped me a lot.

*https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jon+kabat+zinn+... <- Good man on the subject