Why do these demands never stop coming at us?

Every day more arrives — calls, messages, requests, complaints. You answer what you can, and still the pile grows. You start to believe the pile is a judgment on you. It is not. A pile grows because people need things, not because your team is weak. You did not sign up to satisfy every person who asks. No one can do that — not you alone, not your whole team together. The wish to disappoint no one is not strength. It is a wish dressed up as duty, and it will exhaust you faster than the work itself. What is yours to control: which requests your pod takes up today, how you divide the work, and whether you tell the truth about what you cannot do. Decide this together, out loud. Act on the decision. Let the rest go.