Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then... life will become a beautiful success!
Time! Over the course of history, it has been defined or described in more ways than there are hours in a month (700+) or minutes in a day (1,440). Observations about time include the comical, the cynical and the serious. Novelist Faith Baldwin called time “a dressmaker specializing in alterations,” while author Lucille S. Harper described time as “a great healer but a poor beautician.” Screenwriter and playwright Ben Hecht saw time as “a circus, always packing up and moving away.” To business executive Franklin P. Jones: “time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out and will tell.” Others have taken a more serious view, calling time: “the life of the soul” (Longfellow); “the coin of your life” (Sandburg); the only capital that any human being has” (Edison); and “the stuff life is made of” (Benjamin Franklin). Making the best of one’s time is a key ingredient in the formula for success. The late Peter F. Drucker, often called “the father of modern management,” was a leading exponent of the importance of time management, emphasizing it often in many of his 39 books and countless newspaper and journal articles. “Time,” Drucker wrote, “is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.” Drucker, well up into his nineties, consulted with many Fortune 500 companies and many of the world’s best known business leaders. His admonition to them is the same as it is for all who would achieve success today: “Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.”
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AuthorMusings from Gammon Irons. To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for us all; and surely a good haven to sail. Archives
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