"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
Laura M. Stack, is a capacity development expert, otherwise called "The Productivity Pro" She said "Planning will keep you on course in achieving your goals and objectives."
Did you hear, Abraham
Lincoln? "If I had six hours to cut down a tree, I would spend the first
four sharpening the axe..." what an instruction. Dale Carnegie told a
story of two men who were out chopping wood. One man worked hard all
day, took no breaks, and only stopped briefly for lunch. The other
chopper took several breaks during the day and a short nap at lunch. At
the end of the day, the woodsman who had taken no breaks was quite
disturbed to realize that, the other guy had cut more wood. "I don’t
understand. Every time I looked around, you were sitting down, yet you
cut more wood than I did.", he lamented. His companion asked, "Did you
also notice that while I was sitting down, I was sharpening my axe?"
