The second you start framing a moment for your story, it stops being yours and starts being content.

There is a switch that flips the moment you start thinking about how something will be told. You stop being a participant and become a narrator, and the experience reorganizes itself around what will read well later. Documenting is not the problem. The two modes simply cannot run at once, and the narrating one wins whenever both are open.

Catch the switch this week. Notice the moment your attention moves from the thing to the account of the thing. Then choose deliberately, rather than sliding into the second without ever having decided.