Ten years from now, this exact week will be a story you tell. Decide now which kind.

Present difficulty eventually turns into narrative, and the narrative is shaped by what you did rather than by what happened to you. You cannot always choose the events of a week, but the account of it will turn on your response, and that part is being settled right now while it still feels like an ordinary Tuesday.

Ask what version of this you would want to describe later. Then do one thing consistent with it, however small. You are not performing for a future audience, only noticing that today’s choices are what the story gets made of.