No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job. Like a turnstile, he is in everybody’s way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.
It is so easy to get knocked off course, assuming we clearly set our course in the first place. Remind yourself every morning of the destination you set, and remain focused on completing the specific and pre-determined actions that will move you closer to that glorious harbor. And do so with dispatch.
—Mike Hazell
