Wisdom For the Wise

BE SYSTEMATIC

Men should be systematic in their business. A person who does
business by rule, having a time and place for everything, doing his work
promptly, will accomplish twice as much and with half the trouble of him who
does it carelessly and slipshod. By introducing system into all your transactions,
doing one thing at a time, always meeting appointments with punctuality, you
find leisure for pastime and recreation; whereas the man who only half does one
thing, and then turns to something else, and half does that, will have his business
at loose ends, and will never know when his day’s work is done, for it never will
be done. Of course, there is a limit to all these rules. We must try to preserve the
happy medium, for there is such a thing as being too systematic. There are men
and women, for instance, who put away things so carefully that they can never
find them again. It is too much like the “red tape” formality at Washington, and
Mr. Dickens’ “Circumlocution Office,”—all theory and no result.