There’s a narrator in your head telling your life story all day. Make sure it’s not rooting against the main character.

Everything that happens gets narrated before you have finished experiencing it, and the narration decides what the event means. The same missed shot can be told as a bad night or as proof you never had it. Neither version is more factual; one of them just makes the next attempt possible. Most people never notice the narrator at all, which is how a hostile one runs unchallenged for years.

Catch the sentence your head writes after something goes wrong this week. Write a second version that is equally true and less against you. Choose that one, not because it is nicer but because it keeps you in the game.