The person behind the curtain casts no shadow on stage. That doesn’t mean they’re not running the show.

Visibility and influence come apart more often than you would think. Whoever set the lights, wrote the running order and decided what happens next may never appear in front of anyone, and the whole thing would collapse without them. Attention lands on the people standing in it, which makes it easy to misread who is actually holding things together.

Look for the invisible people around you this week. The one who books the gym, the one who remembers everybody’s shift, the one who quietly fixes the group chat. Thank one of them out loud, and notice that work like that is available to you too.