People don’t remember your best day or your worst day. They remember your usual.

Reputation is assembled from your ordinary behaviour rather than your best or worst moments. The brilliant game and the bad night both get filed as exceptions, while how you usually speak to people, usually turn up, usually follow through, becomes what others mean when they say your name. Consistency outranks intensity simply because there is so much more of it.

Choose one small ordinary thing to do reliably this week: on time, replies sent, your share of the cleaning, a teammate encouraged. Keep it up past the point where it feels worth noticing. The usual version of you is the one that travels.