The person who benefits from your hurry rarely calls it a problem.

Urgency comes from somewhere, and it is worth noticing who stays comfortable while you are rushing. Deadlines that protect someone else’s schedule, decisions that must happen tonight, requests that arrive already late all shift the strain onto you and leave the person who created it untroubled. They are not necessarily acting in bad faith. They simply have no reason to name a cost they are not paying.

When something feels urgent, ask whose calendar the urgency belongs to. Then ask what actually happens if it takes a day longer. Say the real timeline out loud.