Impatience is a tax. You pay it in mistakes, overspending and stuff you have to redo.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Hurrying is rarely free. It shows up as the full-price purchase you could have waited two weeks for, the glued-wrong assembly, the message you have to send twice because the first one was unclear. Add those up over a month and they are the most expensive thing in it.
Track the tax for a week. Every time you redo something, pay more than you had to, or clean up a mess you made by rushing, write one line about it. Read the list on Sunday. The pattern will point at one or two moments in your day where slowing down by ten minutes pays for itself.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Where has rushing cost you money or work you redid?
MORE IN PATIENCE & TIMING
- Pulled off the grill, the meat keeps cooking while it rests. Some progress happens after you stop working.
- Waiting on someone else’s sorry can eat years. You’re allowed to close that tab without it.
- Nobody sees your two years of braces in the wedding photos. Patience that worked tends to be invisible.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.