A team stuck in firefighting never gets ahead because every day starts with yesterday's emergency. We broke the cycle with one ritual: a thirty minute weekly reset. We list every fire we fought that week, then ask one question of each: what would have prevented this. Half the time the answer is a five minute fix nobody had time for. So we schedule those preventions before anything else the next week. Slowly the fires thin out because we are attacking causes, not just symptoms. Firefighting feels productive because it is urgent. Prevention feels slow because it is quiet. The weekly reset is how you trade the loud work for the work that actually ends the fires.