When you rush, you don’t save time. You just move the time to fixing it later.

Speed at the wrong stage is a loan. The twenty minutes you skip at the start come back as two hours of correction, usually at a worse moment, while other people are waiting. It feels like efficiency because the saving is immediate and visible while the cost arrives later wearing a different name.

Before you hurry through something this week, ask where the error would show up if you got it wrong. If the answer is a place that would be expensive or embarrassing to fix, slow down for that specific part. Not the whole task. Just the part where mistakes compound.