Nobody gets asked to part a sea before they’ve learned to say yes to the small stuff.

Big assignments go to people who have already said yes to small ones. That is not gatekeeping, it is how capacity gets built, through a hundred ordinary obligations nobody would write a story about. Waiting for something big enough to justify your effort keeps you at the start. The small stuff is the training rather than the delay.

Take the unimpressive thing in front of you this week and do it fully. Turn up early, finish the boring task, keep the promise nobody would notice you breaking. You are not building a list of credentials with those; you are becoming someone who can be trusted with more when it comes.