You are an expert at saying “yes”

People describe you as “the yes person”. You volunteer to help others enthusiastically, even as you’re wondering why you’re over-booking, over-promising, over-extending yourself…yet again. The alternative, however, is the feeling you get when you say “no”. It's dreadful and you avoid it at all costs, because you don’t want to seem “selfish”.

Wrestling with your feelings to say “no” is infinitely harder emotionally than caving and just saying “yes”. Except saying “yes” is just as tiring. In fact, its exhausting, and it leaves too little time for you to do the things you’d like to do for yourself.