Your calendar is booked solid with the job you already have.

The job you want is not on it anywhere.

Look at this week.

Status meetings.
Escalations.
Reviews of other people's work.
The problem only you can untangle.

Every block on that calendar has a deadline, an owner and somebody waiting.

The work that decides your next role has none of those.
↳ Nobody is waiting for you to become visible to senior leaders.
↳ No deadline arrives for changing how your work gets read.
↳ Nothing on your calendar breaks if you stay exactly where you are.

So the doing fills every hour, and the deciding never makes the list.

Here is the part that stings.

You have been getting feedback about this for years. You just could not turn it into a task, because nobody ever showed you what it actually points at.