10/19/2026
Twenty thousand contracts doesn't make you psychic. It does make some patterns impossible to unsee.
After enough years in this business, you start noticing things earlier.
The follow-up that cannot wait. The document worth reading one more time. The handoff that sounds fine but deserves another question.
That is not being psychic. It is what happens when experience turns into pattern recognition.
Thirty years later, I still believe the small things you notice early are often the things that keep a file moving later.
What is something experience taught you to notice sooner?