A sprained ankle teaches patience no lecture ever could. The body sets the calendar, not your schedule.

An injury is one of the few things that will not negotiate. You can be as motivated as you like, and the tissue heals at the rate it heals regardless of what you had planned. That is a genuinely new experience for most people, who are used to effort moving timelines. The lesson lands because there is no alternative to learning it, which is why no lecture works half as well.

Get the realistic return date from the person treating you rather than setting your own. Then build the week around it instead of against it: what you can train, what you cannot.