It all depends on you being good at it
Nothing about your working day is failing; it simply depends entirely on you being good at it. With the North Node in Aquarius in the 6th house, the ordinary day is supposed to be improved by design rather than by talent. You need one thing that works better because you changed the system.
Capability has been covering for structure, and it has covered so well that nobody has noticed the structure is missing. It becomes visible the first week you are unavailable.
Fixing the process is less satisfying than doing the work
Improving a system produces no immediate result you can enjoy, whereas doing the task well produces one every single time. That difference is why the process has stayed broken for years. Spend one day on the mechanism rather than the output and measure the following month. The satisfaction arrives late and it is larger.
Change one thing so it needs less of you
Start with the task you are most relied upon for and redesign it so somebody else could do it: write the steps, remove the judgement calls, automate what repeats. Then hand it over. The exercise is reducing your own necessity, which will feel like giving away something valuable. It is, and that is the trade.
The team is the unit, not you
Your working contribution has been individual and excellent, which makes the team's output uneven and dependent. Spend one whole quarter improving what everybody around you can do rather than what you personally produce. It is invisible work with no credit attached, and it raises the total considerably more than another good year of yours.
A day that runs without heroics
What accumulates is a working life with no rescues in it: things happen because the arrangement makes them happen, not because somebody stayed late and was brilliant. It is a great deal less dramatic, and it is the only version that survives you being unwell, on holiday, or simply interested in something else that year.
Design the day so willpower is not required
Your physical routines depend on motivation, which is abundant in good weeks and absent otherwise. Change the environment instead: the equipment left where you will trip over it, the food already prepared, the class already paid for in advance. Design outperforms resolve here by a wide margin and it has never once been tried.
Improve what everybody uses
There is a process in your workplace that wastes a small amount of everybody's time every day, and nobody owns it. Fix it. There is no glory whatsoever in it, and the aggregate value is larger than anything you will produce individually this year, which is the arithmetic this arena keeps offering you.
Progress you cannot feel happening
Systemic improvement produces no satisfying moment: nothing is completed, nobody applauds, and the effect only appears in an average taken over months. That is why you keep choosing the visible task. Set up one structural change and measure it quarterly rather than daily. The reading is the reward and it arrives late.
Colleagues are collaborators, not a room
You are a pleasure to work with and slightly performing at all times, which keeps working relationships warm and one-directional. Ask two colleagues how they would improve something you currently run, and then use one of their answers entirely unaltered. Being genuinely influenced by somebody is what turns an audience into a working group.
Build income that does not depend on being brilliant
Your earning tracks your performance, which means it also tracks your energy, your health and how the year is going. Construct one revenue stream that runs on a process rather than on you being on form. It pays less at the peak and considerably more across a decade with two bad years in it.