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If you think of the brain as having two "programming languages": the "far" (symbolic) and "near" (experiential), and the "unvoiced desire" as being something that's running on the "near" system, then what you need to do is translate from the symbolic to the experiential.
In this case, you'd begin by asking what experiences you anticipate will happen if you don't "save time", and what your emotional reaction to those experiences is.
Take care, though, to imagine actually experiencing one specific situation (in sensory detail) where you currently want to "save time", and to anticipate the results in sensory detail as well. Otherwise, you'll only engage the "far" (symbolic) system, and won't get any useful information.