You can’t be everyone’s sidekick. Pick who gets your time on purpose.

Time given by default goes to whoever asks loudest, which leaves your closest people with the leftovers. Being available to everyone is less generosity than an absence of choosing. Every yes is quietly a no somewhere else, whether or not you meant it that way.

Name the few people you genuinely want time with and put something in the calendar for them. When the next open-ended request arrives, it is allowed to say you are not free. Choosing on purpose sounds colder than it feels, and the people who matter will notice the difference.