The GPS can’t route you anywhere if you never type in a destination. Decide where you’re going.

Effort without a direction still produces motion, which is why being busy can feel like progress for years at a time. A destination is what lets you tell whether a given choice is forward or sideways. It does not have to be right forever, it has to be specific enough to steer by.

Write down in one sentence where you would like to be in three years. Then hold your current week up against it. Change one thing that clearly points the other way.