A peaceful life is mostly a bunch of small no’s said early.

Peace gets built out of a great many unremarkable refusals rather than one grand decision. Every small yes you did not mean adds an obligation, and a dozen of those is what a frantic week is made from. Said early, each one costs you almost nothing. Said late, or never, they stack into something that starts to feel like your personality.

Look at the next ten days and find two things you agreed to without thinking. Get out of one of them now, politely, while the cost of doing that is still small.