Slow Down. You're Already Late.

You're behind. So you rush.

Rushing feels like action. It signals to everyone around you — and to that voice in your head — that you are doing something about it.

But rushing doesn't reduce the backlog. It multiplies it. When you rush, you don’t do the work faster. You do a different, worse version of the work.

The rushed email creates a confused reply. The rushed decision spawns three new problems. The rushed meeting produces a follow-up meeting.

The counterintuitive move: slow down enough to do it once. Don’t multitask. Just do the one thing intentionally and get it done.