Before you say yes
Room in the TankCan your week take one more commitment?
Someone has asked you to join, run, coach or help with something every week. List what you already keep, how long it takes and how it leaves you, and the page stocks a fish tank and checks whether the new one fits. The tank, the sums and the call are free, in your browser.
1 The new ask free
2 What you already keep free
Up to eight standing commitments: clubs, classes, rotas, regular help, side projects. Hours a week (use 0.5 for something that takes 2 hours a month). Tick fixed for anything you cannot trim or hand back.
3 The tank free
Not stocked yet
4 Write the notes
One run writes a note on every fish, a note on the new one, the rehome note and the smaller yes where the sums call for them, and a short line you can say back to whoever asked. The numbers and the call stay as the page set them.
The notes - none yet
-The new one
The page's check
5 Saved tanks
How the page does the sums
The load. Hours kept now and hours with the new one, each as a share of the hours a week you are willing to give. The draining share is the hours that drain you (the new one included, if you guess it would) out of all the hours with the new one.
The call, first match wins. What you keep now is already over your hours: already overstocked. It fits now but not with the new one: no room for this one. More than half the hours would drain you: murky water. Over 85% of your hours: a snug fit. Anything else: room in the tank.
Rehome first. When the tank is overstocked or has no room, the one flexible commitment to trim, pause or hand back first: anything that drains you before anything even, before anything that lifts you; then the most hours; then the earlier in your list. For murky water, only flexible ones that drain you. Fixed ones are never picked. A smaller yes is the most quarter-hours of the new one that keeps you at or under 85% of your hours, offered when that is at least half an hour and less than the full ask.
Friendly arithmetic, not professional advice. Hours are your own estimates. If you feel worn out most days, talk to someone you trust or a health professional.