Cold Engine, Redlining it.

[ProjectM96]

I know it is bad to drive the car hard when the engine is cold, but I just can't do that in this car. It begs to be driven hard. I often can't wait to drive somewhere because I want to drive my car and accelerate quickly. And I don't know about you guys, but it takes more than 5 minutes of normal driving before the temp needle even starts to move and another 2 minutes for it to get to normal operating temperature. I can't wait that long. My Mazda warms up to normal operating temp after 2 minutes of normal driving.

What do you guys do to restrain yourselves?