Capable women don't accumulate responsibility because they ask for it. They accumulate it because no one thinks to ask if they want it. There's a difference. A significant one.

One is a choice. The other is an assumption that your capability equals your availability. And the most subtle, insidious part of this pattern is that it often starts as something that feels good. Being needed feels like mattering. Holding things together feels like strength. Anticipating everyone's needs feels like love. Until one day it doesn't.

Until the weight of it is heavier than any single responsibility on its own. Until you're exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't touch. Until you're competent and depleted at the same time, which is one of the most disorienting feelings a high-performing woman can have.

On this week's Monday Minset, Kim disects the structural overload. It's not burnout from overwork. It's the accumulation of things you never consciously chose to carry. Things that were assigned to you quietly, by rooms that needed a stabilizer and knew you would be one.

The recalibration starts here: not by dropping everything, but by asking, for the first time, which of this did I actually choose?That question changes everything.

The Contract Women Sign Without Knowing.