You’re Not Too Busy. You’re Unbalanced.
In my first years in product management, I had all the tools: Jira boards, sprint backlogs, wiki pages, stakeholder decks. Yet the same conversations kept recurring. About priorities. About why we’d dropped things. When I mapped two sprints of actual work against the type of contribution each task made, the pattern was obvious. I wasn’t overloaded. I was unbalanced. The category I was systematically ignoring was Clarity — the one that makes every other type of work more effective.