Sitting in the parked car until the song ends is not wasting time. It’s landing.

There is a difference between stopping and arriving. Cutting the engine and walking straight in means you carry the whole journey indoors, still partly somewhere else. Three minutes of staying put lets the previous thing finish, so the next thing gets you rather than the leftovers. It looks like doing nothing, and it is actually a handover.

Give yourself one deliberate pause this week between two parts of your day. Let the song end, sit on the steps, stand outside the door for a minute. Then go in and see whether you are more use once you are there.