How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett

Published:

1910

Pages:

41

ISBN:

0967972809

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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

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Rise an hour, an hour and a half, or even two hours earlier; and--if you must--retire earlier when you can. In the matter of exceeding programmes, you will accomplish as much in one morning hour as in two evening hours.

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n the day.

If we further analyse our vague, uneasy aspiration, we shall, I think, see that it springs from a fixed idea that we ought to do something in addition to those things which we are loyally and morally obliged to do. We are obliged, by various codes written and unwritten, to maintain ourselves and our families (if any) in health and comfort, to pay our debts, to save, to increase our prosperity by increasing our efficiency. A task sufficiently difficult! A task which very few of us achieve! A task often beyond our skill! yet, if we succeed in it, as we sometimes do, we are not satisfied; the skeleton is still with us.

And even when we realise tat the task is beyond our skill, that our powers cannot cope with it, we feel that we should be less discontented if we gave to our powers, already overtaxed, something still further to do.

And such is, indeed, the fact. The wish to accomplish something outside their formal programme is common to all men who in the course of evolution have

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Arnold Bennett wrote the first book about time management and productivity. It is a fast, easy-to-read book about making the use of your time (as a writer, in his case). A charming, interesting book.