Setting boundaries at work

I'd always been the person who said yes to everything. Extra reports, weekend calls, last-minute presentations—you name it, I took it on. But after six months of running on fumes, something had to give. In my next one-to-one, I was honest about what was happening. I needed to flag something important: I'd been taking on too much , and it was damaging the work that actually mattered. My manager lis