Purpose doesn’t always feel purposeful. Sometimes it feels like folding the same shirts for six hours.

Meaning and the feeling of meaning come apart constantly. Six hours folding the same shirts, a shift of stocking shelves, an evening of the same drills, and nothing about it feels like a calling while it is happening. The sensation of significance is not the thing itself; it is an occasional bonus. If you only do work that feels purposeful at the time, you will give up on almost everything worth finishing.

Get through this week’s dull hours without demanding that they feel important. Do them well, notice something small about the room, and let the feeling turn up or not.