Sorting the work recycling correctly takes ten extra seconds. Most standards are ten-extra-seconds decisions.

Most standards are not big moral tests, they are small time taxes you either pay or do not. Ten seconds to sort properly, to put the tool back, to file the thing where it belongs: each is trivial alone, and the sum of them is what people mean when they call someone reliable. Nobody decides to have low standards. They just keep declining the ten seconds.

Notice one ten-second step you routinely skip and pay it for a week. Put the cart back, label the container, rinse the cup. Watch whether the rest of your work starts quietly tidying itself up too.