When a Week Fills Up, What Do You Protect?

A goal doesn’t sit in an empty calendar. New requests and old commitments compete for the same time—and saying yes to everything can quietly crowd out the work that mattered first.

When your week fills unexpectedly, how do you decide what to protect, renegotiate, or pause? Is there a signal you use to check whether that choice helped, rather than just shifted the pressure somewhere else?