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You're Taking Too Long

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” –  Abraham Lincoln “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” –  Abraham Lincoln How do I square the above two quotes to be taken together? I have long felt a need to "hustle", though it is funny that when I was attempting to recall the quote above I remembered the word, "hurried". That misremembrance may be telling as I proceed through this reflection.  But, now, the older I get, I consider much more the need to stop, to reflect, to put those reflections together in a way that I have not done before. Thinking back, I have long reflected, but those reflections seem to be very similar, evidence of a halt in growth. In many ways, I am still a babe, immature. I may always be immature in some ways, but there should be other ways that manfulness is afforded me through grace and faith.  I searched time management in the book for Prove