Your dream deserves a work ethic that would recognize it in a crowded room.

A goal and the effort behind it should look like they belong to each other. When someone describes an enormous ambition and then describes their week, the mismatch is usually obvious to everyone but them. The dream is not the problem. The problem is a work pattern that no one would guess was attached to it.

Describe your ambition and then describe last week’s actual hours to yourself, side by side. If a stranger could not connect the two, adjust one of them. Either shrink the claim or change the week, but stop letting them drift apart.