[wmij]

Something that has helped me with recognizing incremental progress on long running side and personal projects where completion seems so far off is relating it to the crawler vehicles NASA used to get the Space Shuttle to the launch pad.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/the-crawlers https://youtu.be/N1WvVRavXsI?t=60

Incremental progress and speed seem slow (1 mph), but eventually you will get into position for launch.

This has helped me understand how weight and physical constraints (these == time commitments to a primary project, family, sleep, etc.) impact velocity on where you start from getting to an eventual goal (starting a side project and coming to release, launch, etc.). Some things just can't travel faster than 1 mph due to external constraints.