But before you touch a single slider, you're already burning time.
 
You're hunting for an image you know you have but can't find.
You're typing the same export settings you typed last week... and the week before.

You're opening Photoshop for a layout Lightroom could have built on its own.

You're adding your copyright to images one at a time instead of once on import.
 
None of that is editing. 
All of it is stealing time from it.
 
And none of it is your fault.
 
Lightroom has an entire layer of workflow presets built specifically to eliminate those tasks. 

Most photographers never find them because they're not where you'd think to look.
 
Not preset packs you download and hope for the best.

Presets you build yourself... once... that then run automatically every time you import, edit, or export.
 
Seven of them. 
Three categories. 
One short course.
 
Set them up once... and your copyright embeds on every import without you touching it.

Your export settings are ready the moment you click export. 

Your most-used targeted edits are one click away inside a panel most photographers have never opened.