Let urgency prove itself before obeying it.

Urgency is often manufactured, sometimes deliberately and sometimes by anxiety. Genuine urgency survives a question: what actually happens if this waits a week. Making urgency prove itself before you obey it filters out a great deal of noise.

The next time something feels like it must be handled immediately, ask what the concrete cost of a short delay would be. Frequently there is none. Reserve your fast responses for the cases where the answer is real.