Being busy doesn’t make you important. It just makes you tired.

A full schedule is easily mistaken for a meaningful one, partly because it looks like evidence of being needed. Activity and significance are separate things, though, and it is entirely possible to run at capacity on work that changes nothing. Exhaustion is not a measure of contribution.

Look at the busiest part of your week and ask what it produced. If the honest answer is motion, cut something and tolerate the gap that follows. Being less occupied feels uncomfortable for a while before it starts feeling like room.