Build Your Invisible Load Map

This visual works well for anyone juggling several competing parts of life, especially working parents, managers, caregivers, students, or people managing multiple projects. The problem it solves is mental overload. Instead of keeping everything in your head, it makes the imbalance visible. You quickly see where most of your attention is going, which areas are being neglected, and where you may need to reset priorities.

Prompt / skill content

Part 1: 
I want you to interview me to build a map of everything I'm currently
carrying that I haven't written down anywhere. Ask me about four areas,
one at a time: work, kids, house, myself. Within each area, ask me
about three things, one at a time, and wait for my answer before
asking the next question:

1. Tasks: what has a clear next action but hasn't gotten one yet?
2. Decisions in progress: what am I circling without having landed on
   an answer, or what's waiting on someone else to move first?
3. Friction points: what costs me energy every time it happens, even
   something small, that I've stopped noticing because I've been
   working around it?

Don't move to the next area until you've asked at least one follow-up
question on each of the three types for the current one. If my answer
is short or generic, push once more before moving on rather than
accepting the first thing I say. Don't offer solutions or advice
during the interview, just capture what I tell you. At the end, write
back everything you found as one document, organized by area and then
by type, so I can read the whole shape of what I'm carrying at once.



Part 2: 
Turn this into a single visual map I can filter, rather than a plain document.
Group it by the four areas, and within each area, by the three types:
task, decision in progress, friction point. Add a way to filter across
all four areas by type, with a live count for each type, so I can see
at a glance how many friction points I'm carrying versus tasks versus
open decisions.

Where to get it

Read the original resource.