People forget most of the middle. They remember how things started and how you ended them.

Memory keeps edges and loses middles. The long stretch of a season or a friendship blurs into one general feeling, while the opening and the exit stay sharp for years. So the way you walk out of something carries far more weight than the effort it costs you. Most people coast through the last two weeks of a job or a team, and that is exactly the part that gets replayed later.

Pick one thing in your life that is winding down soon. Decide now what you want the final week of it to look like, then actually do that.