The horizon is out there somewhere, and you just keep chasing it, looking for it, and working for it. With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. In order to get from what was to what will be, you must go through what is. There is no point at which having arrived we can remain.
Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.
You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point. We shall go on to the end.