Every time you rush, something else pays for it: quality, safety or someone’s patience.

Speed is never free, it just sends the bill somewhere else. Hurry through a task and the cost lands on the work itself, or on whoever has to redo it, or on the person waiting while you fix what you broke. You feel the time you saved, because that part is yours. The part you spent belongs to someone else.

Notice which thing you are quietly spending the next time you are behind. If it is your own evening, that may be a fair trade. If it is a customer’s safety or a coworker’s patience, say you need five more minutes instead.