Data rather than an impression
Try one week where you write down what you actually did each day. With the North Node in Gemini in the 6th house, the growth is in the particulars of the working day: the procedure, the tool, the exact step that goes wrong. You need data rather than an impression.
You are good at knowing what the work is for. What is missing is the level below that, where things get done in a specific order by somebody with the right information.
Detail work feels like it is beneath the point
The resistance is a sense of demotion: sorting the process, learning the tool, checking the step reads as clerical next to the direction you could be setting. Do the clerical thing for a fortnight. What you find at that level usually changes the direction as well, and nothing else would have surfaced it.
Explaining the purpose instead of fixing the process
The retreat is to address the wrong altitude: the team is confused about the workflow and you clarify the mission. It is inspiring and the workflow stays broken. When somebody raises a practical problem, resolve the practical problem first. Purpose is not a substitute for a procedure, however much better it feels to supply.
Learn the tool properly for one hour a week
Start with a single competence you have been improvising: the software, the technique, the piece of equipment. One hour a week, learned properly rather than picked up. Then document one recurring task in steps somebody else could follow. Both exercises replace approximation with something exact, and exactness is the whole subject here.
Colleagues who know how it actually works
The people with operational knowledge in your working life are rarely the ones you talk to: the administrator, the technician, the person who has done the job for fifteen years. They hold what this arena wants. Ask one of them to explain their part properly, and take notes. It is the fastest education available to you.
Notice which day it started
Your reading of your own body runs at low resolution: generally tired, something is off, probably fine. The practice is specificity — when did it begin, what changed that week, what makes it better by lunchtime. Answering those three questions once will do more than any general resolution to look after yourself.
Become the one who knows the details
Professionally the advantage available here is unglamorous fluency: knowing how the process actually runs, where the numbers come from, who does what. Vision is abundant in most organisations and accurate detail is scarce, which is why the second one buys more standing than the first. Spend three months becoming the person with the correct information, and watch what starts to route through you as a result.
Working relationships run on small exchanges
You maintain colleagues at conversational altitude — ideas, direction, the interesting question — and skip the routine contact that actually holds a working life together. Send three unremarkable messages this week: the update, the thank you, the question you could have looked up. Ordinary traffic is what makes people willing to help later.
Do the admin nobody has named
Household work here is a coordination problem more than an effort problem: the tasks nobody wrote down, the thing everybody assumed somebody else was handling. Your instinct is to discuss how the household should work. Make the list instead — every recurring job, named, with a person against it. One afternoon of tedium buys a year of quiet.
Get paid for the hours you actually work
Your working time leaks in the untracked places: the extra half hour, the favour, the task that grew. Because you do not measure it, none of it is priced. Track your hours honestly for two weeks and compare the total with what you are paid for. The gap is the negotiation, and it will be larger than you expect.