Four things that I used to do slowly, but now I do fastly:

1. Eat. Used to be that I was always the last one done at the table. I had quite the leisurely pace when it came to the food. But, a couple of jobs with very short lunch breaks, a couple of years of eating dinner in the five minutes between getting home from work and needing to leave for rehearsal, and I am much more of a speed-eater. Not insanely fast, but fast-er.

2. Smoke. Well, I quit smoking like 4 years ago now, but for the first several years of smoking, I was quite the leisurely smoker. I believed in taking fifteen minutes to smoke a cigarette. But (see above for eating) eventually I graduated and had to get a job. My breaks were 5 minutes, and I felt a need to have 4 cigarettes on my lunch breaks, 2 before and 1 after eating. So as you can see, I had to speed that shit up. And then I had to quit. Because smoking is bad for you.

3. Journal write. I used to spend hours writing in my journal. I would lay on the floor writing, and then wake up with my face in my journal midway through a thought. Then I'd start writing again. This was when I had what we call "free time." My journal writing time is put to much more efficient use now. I write until I get stuck and need to think, and then I decide to do something easier.

4. Write. Handwrite, I mean. Not the creative aspect. I used to write in all block letters, and very neatly. It didn't take THAT much time, but now that I have switched over to rushed scratches it takes me so much less time.