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    Incremental Accomplishments

    Sep 14, 2018 5 minutes
    By Joel Salatin

    My dad used to have a saying: “We make haste slowly.” He said it tongue-in-cheek, but the older I get, the more I appreciate the wisdom in it.

    We live in a fast-paced society. Goodness, everyone seems impatient to me. I seem impatient to me. If a website doesn’t pop up in three seconds, I’m gone. We live in a hurried, harried, frenzied world, trying to cram everything into anything. We relax in a hurry. We work in a hurry. We go to church in a hurry and watch our watches during the sermon. We have more options than ever before, but those opportunities cram our heads as we try to take advantage of them all. Is it any wonder we seek stress relievers? Is it any wonder vacations have become more expensive? We say we have to unwind right now, quickly. Yesteryear’s

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