It's 6:47 a.m. You haven't had coffee, you haven't checked a single thing off, and your brain has already filed its report: You're behind. You dropped the ball on that email. Everyone could tell you were faking it in the meeting yesterday. This is just who you are now.

Here's the thing nobody tells you about that 6:47 a.m. report: it's a first draft, not a fact. And first drafts, as any writer will tell you, are almost always overdramatic, under-researched, and badly in need of an editor.