Pressure cookers make tough things tender in half the time. Pressure isn’t always the enemy.

Intensity compresses time. Things that would take years under relaxed conditions can happen in months when the pressure is real, which is why demanding jobs and hard seasons change people quickly. None of that is an argument for grinding yourself down, since pressure with no relief simply damages things. Applied for a defined period with an end in sight, it does something nothing gentler can.

Check whether your current hard stretch has a finish line. If it does, know the date and push toward it. If it does not, that is the thing worth changing first.