Recognition can create expectations faster than it creates resources.

Being noticed changes what people ask of you before it changes what you have to work with. Praise arrives instantly; budget, time, help and authority arrive slowly if at all, and in the gap between them sits a person expected to do more with the same hours. That gap is where a good year quietly turns into an exhausting one. It is not ingratitude to notice it.

When recognition comes your way, treat it as the moment to ask for the thing that makes the next round possible. Attention is at its most convertible while it is fresh.