An opportunity becomes less impressive when you calculate what it asks you to stop doing.

Opportunities look different once you price them properly. A role, a move, a project, all of them sound expansive until you write down what stops for the duration, the training, the friendships kept warm by proximity, the ordinary evenings. The offer is not the addition, it is the exchange.

Write the two lists side by side before deciding. What this gives, and what pauses. Some things survive the comparison easily and are then worth doing wholeheartedly. Others quietly stop being tempting.