How do I stick to protocol when the pressure is high?

You know the protocol and follow it well when things are calm. It is under pressure that a step slips. That is not carelessness. When we are rushed or stressed, the mind narrows and the careful parts are the first to fall away. It happens to everyone who does exacting work. The answer is not to try harder in the moment. It is to make the protocol so routine that pressure cannot knock it loose. What you do the same way every single time survives a bad day. Slow down at the exact points where you tend to slip and turn them into fixed, non-negotiable moves. Notice the one step you skip most when rushed and build a small check for it, a pause, a spoken word, a physical marker. Fix that single leak. Reliability under pressure is built in the calm moments, not summoned in the hard ones.