You can’t rush bread dough by staring at it. Warmth helps. Hovering doesn’t.

Warmth and time are the only inputs dough actually responds to. It rises because it is left alone somewhere kind, and lifting the cloth every five minutes adds nothing at all. Plenty of things you care about work the same way, including healing, fitness and most friendships.

Name something you are currently checking too often. Decide what the warmth is for it, the one condition that genuinely helps, and provide that. Then set a date to look again and leave it alone until then.