Purpose isn’t always a spotlight. Sometimes it’s being the coworker who actually shows up.

Significance gets imagined as a stage, which leaves most people assuming they have not found theirs. Meanwhile the rarest thing in any workplace is somebody dependable: on time, not complaining, doing what they said they would do. That is in short supply everywhere and it changes other people’s days. Reliability is unexciting to describe and immediately obvious in its absence.

Be the dependable one somewhere specific this week, at your job or on your team. Turn up early, do the thing you said, and do not make anybody chase you. Watch how quickly people start relying on you.