Don’t ask for more responsibility while you’re dropping what you already have.

Trust gets handed out based on what you are already carrying, not on what you say you could carry. Asking for more while something is slipping suggests you cannot see your own load clearly, and that is the part that worries people. Nobody withholds a chance to punish you. They withhold it because they are watching what happens to things already given.

List everything you have agreed to. Find the one you are quietly behind on and close it out this week. Then make the ask, which lands completely differently when nothing is dangling behind you.