Bakers score the loaf so it opens where they choose, not wherever it bursts. Decide where the pressure goes.

Pressure finds an exit whether or not you choose one. Scoring the loaf decides where it opens; without that decision it tears wherever it happens to be weakest. A hard week behaves the same way and comes out somewhere, usually in your sleep, your temper, or the thing you care most about. Choosing in advance is the only real control on offer.

Look at the busy stretch ahead and pick what gives first. Say out loud which thing gets the smaller version of you this week. Then protect the rest deliberately.