Art of TimeManagemen

Art of Time Management

The book How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day written by Arnold Bennett systematically tells readers how to fully utilize the twenty-four hours in one day. The content unfolds as the author’s mind. Unlike the appealing science fiction, the book is not at all novel but close to our life. The method and thoughts can all be applied to the daily life and improve our living quality.

The book catches reader’s eyes by comparing money and time. Because of the difference in ability, everyone has different salary. However, time is fair to every individual. You won’t get more than twenty-four hours one day just because you are richer or you have greater politics power. But the ability of utilizing time can make your life a fulfilling one. Except for time for work and sleeping, there may be eight free hours left to utilize. But it’s often the case that we waste three or four hours when we are waiting for the railway on the way to work, when we are having lunch and chatting with colleague, or when we are lying on the bed watching at the ceiling, thinking that it’s about time to go to sleep. If we pick up every minute of it, we can regain much time.

In the mainbody of the book, the author talks about how to fully utilize our free time. If you are interested in art and literature, like the book mentioned, you may sit down in your study and read poems or prose after dinner. During this three or four hours, your mind may wander in ancient Greek, enjoying the cultural feast. And if you keep it for one year, you will finally know a lot of beautiful words and phrases. And this also effects your thinking pattern in life. On the other hand, if you do not like literature and art, you may learn to explore your interests and hobbies. For example, if you are interested in cooking, you will motivate to search for ways to learning cooking, which is also a process to improve yourself and get a skill.

Whether or not you live as you want to live depends on your utilization of free time. Life is precious just because within the limited time, some people can create limitless value while some people can just create a little. When the clock walks to ten, you may start to think that it’s time to go to sleep. Then you start to think about the novelty that you meet today. Until about one hour later, a sudden thought hit you that you really need to go to sleep. The precious one hour in your life just walks away and never turns around. If we can take good advantage of this one hour, we will get more seven hours in one week rather than spending seven hours doing nothing.

Gods never favor those who do not favor themselves. Only if we get motivated and push ourselves to keep utilizing free time can we live the life we want. As the book says, a constant breathless hurry is better than an eternal doze. Keeping busy makes your life full while being always bored makes your life dull. If we are master of time management, time never lapses meaninglessly. That’s exactly what the book is trying to tell us.

2020-07-05

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