Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Work you did properly does not need guarding. Most of the dread that follows a finished task comes from knowing where you cut the corner, and the mind keeps circling back to that spot waiting for someone to find it. Care taken at the time is what buys the quiet afterwards. It is cheaper to do the hidden part right than to carry the knowledge that you did not.

Before you hand the next thing over, find the place you were tempted to skim and give it the extra twenty minutes. Then let it go and stop rehearsing its defence.