Excerpt from Success: One Day At A Time by John C. Maxwell
Look at your day. How do you spend it? What ruts have you gotten yourself into that you could easily break yourself out of?
What poor habits are eating valuable minutes of your life every day?
What impact can a few minutes make? Take a look at this. What if you were able to save:
Five minutes by streamlining your morning routine (taking less time to dress, shave, put on makeup, drink coffee, read the paper, and so on)?
Ten minutes by eliminating the things you do each morning to stall starting your work or school day?
Five minutes by avoiding idle talkers or other distractions?
Ten minutes by taking a shorter lunch or break time?Those minutes don’t seem like much. But if you did those things every day, five days a week, for fifty weeks, you would gain an additional 125 hours of time every year. That’s the equivalent of more than three forty-hour weeks to use for anything you want!
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armen on October 31st, 2006 at 10:32 am
if i eliminate the Ten minutes each morning i use to stall starting work or school then I would have to eliminate visiting your site each day!
Len on October 31st, 2006 at 8:20 pm
How true. Most people waste far too much time being inefficient. We really all should put a little more thought into our daily actions, plan things more accordingly and before we know it, we’ll have those extra hours needed to reach our entrepreneurial dreams!
Phil on November 1st, 2006 at 4:32 am
I couldn’t agree more! There are so many ways to save a minute here and there. I think we just need to stop and really look at how we spend this precious resource.