In elementary school, I’d make small little mistakes on math tests. I’d know how to solve the problem but I’d make absent-minded mistakes. So I got into the habit of checking, and re-checking, creating systems to and checks to make sure I didn’t make those small little mistakes. As I’ve gotten older, I find myself triple-checking my work to make sure there aren’t any simple mistakes. Because there’d be times where I’d check something and I still missed something, maybe because I was just going through the motion. Sometimes it’d be very time consuming and exhausting to do. I’d recheck and recheck because I wasn’t sure if I’d just gone through the motion and actually confirmed there weren’t any errors. It was redundant and time consuming, and it would become very draining to stress about feeling like having to recheck something I already checked.
The one way I found how to stop feeling like I need to check it again, is I’ll trigger a sensation or feeling while checking my work, maybe it’s being present and in the moment when I’m checking it, but when I feel that sensation and presence, there is a very clear validation and confirmation that I’d checked it and I hadn’t just gone through the motions.