Troubles. Comforting life troubles can be quantifying your progress in the various ways progress is measurable, and approximating the direction and extent it will bring over periods of time. Problem with western world thinking is all can look at the goal, but in focusing on the goal as an idea or ideal any day's worth of progress seems like nothing has changed. Focusing on the nitty gritty details of living and living progress, it's easy to feel safe and satisfied with the movement that I create, sometimes it's so infinitesimally small that it's not enough movement. Adding the approximation step gives me an indication over a day whether I've done enough. Living day in day out, I've recently discovered my progress in a day is the part of the cycle I should be sparing and place my attention towards directing. Thinking about progress in weeks and months doesn't have the immediate feedback that thinking in days has. Everything fits when it's a daily ritual, you get little breaks and a big break that's sleep and you actually feel refreshed the next morning, recharged to get stuck in in developing the methods you're going to apply to measurably move forward.
Living in western society my tendency is to worry. It's simple to leave it as worry but slightly unpleasant in living worry. Am I doing enough? Will I get to where I want to go? Am I giving myself too much time? And there's the unpredictable illness, pains, so many things can go wrong with a body. So many things can go wrong but they don't in a society. I don't have time, but there is time. I have many chances, but there is a last chance at death, that's already planned and decided and an inevitable certainty. Without any other tools or any great insight, relishing the progress and approximating it is the best I can do at this time.