Learn to be your own ride, your own alarm and your own hype person.

Depending on other people for the basics of getting yourself somewhere puts your day in their hands. Being your own ride, alarm and encouragement is not about going it alone, it is about having a floor under you that does not depend on somebody being in a good mood. Encouragement from outside is lovely and unreliable. Having your own version means a flat week does not stop you.

Take one of the three this week. Set your own alarm across the room, work out the bus route rather than asking for a lift, or write the two sentences you need to hear before a match and read them yourself.