How to Live on 24 Hours a Day…
“Old Things Made New Again”
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day… has been republished by others and you can come across several copies of it on the Internet… Some won’t cost anything, and some will cost anywhere up to just less than ten dollars. It’s complimentary! This is my contribution for you. There were many hours in organizing this work, to make it easier to read from beginning to end and appreciate.
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day… This is a timeless individual time management book that was first published in the early nineteen hundreds, and it’s encouraged generations of people to lead lives with purpose. This is not merely another book about time management; it’s one that’s focused on dealing with leaving daily uncertainties behind. Centered on pursuing one’s true wishes, and live the fullest possible life. Reflection, attentiveness and learned techniques makes it a simpler process to accomplish something meaningful – more trouble-free than anyone could ever imagine….
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
by Arnold Bennett
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Contents:
Preface
This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be, should be read at the end of the book … more
The Daily Miracle
“Yes, he’s one of those men that don’t know how to manage. Good situation. Regular income. Quite enough for luxuries as well as needs. Not really extravagant. And yet the fellow’s always in difficulties. Somehow he gets nothing out of his money…more
The Desire to Exceed One’s Program
“But,” someone may remark, with the English disregard of everything except the point, “what is he driving at with his twenty-four hours a day? I have no difficulty in living on twenty-four hours a day. I do all that I want to do, and …more
Precautions Before Beginning
Now that I have succeeded (if succeeded I have) in persuading you to admit to yourself that you are constantly haunted by a suppressed dissatisfaction with your own arrangement of your daily life; and that the primal cause of that inconvenient dissatisfaction is the …more
In order to come to grips at once with the question of time-expenditure in all its actuality, I must choose an individual case for examination. I can only deal with one case, and that case cannot be the average case, because there is no such case as the average case, just as there is no such …more
You get into the morning train with your newspaper, and you calmly and majestically give yourself up to your newspaper. You do not hurry. You know you have at least half an hour of security in front of you. As your glance lingers idly at the advertisements of shipping and of songs on the outer pages, your air is the air of …more
Remember Human Nature
Nevertheless, had I my life to arrange over again, I would do again as I have done. Only those who have lived at the full stretch seven days a week for a long time can appreciate the full beauty of a regular recurring …more
Controlling The Mine
Hence, it seems to me, the first business of the day should be to put the mind through its paces. You look after your body, inside and out; you run grave danger in hacking hairs off your skin; you employ a whole army of individuals, from the milkman to the pig-killer, to enable you …more
The Reflective Mood
Now as to what this course of study should be there cannot be any question; there never has been any question. All the sensible people of all ages are agreed upon it. And it is not literature, nor is it any other art, nor is it history, nor is it any science. It is the study of one’s self. Man, know thyself. These words are so hackneyed that verily I blush to write them. Yet they must be … more
Interest In The Arts
Of course it is impossible, or at any rate very difficult, properly to study anything whatever without the aid of printed books. But if you desire to understand the deeper depths of bridge or of boat-sailing you would not be deterred by your lack of interest in literature from reading the best books on bridge or boat-sailing. We must, therefore, distinguish between … more
Nothing In Life Is Humdrum
The study of cause and effect, while it lessens the painfulness of life, adds to life’s picturesqueness. The man to whom evolution is but a name looks at the sea as a grandiose, monotonous spectacle, which he can witness in August for three shillings third-class return. The man who is imbued with the idea of development, of …more
Serious Reading
Imaginative poetry produces a far greater mental strain than novels. It produces probably the severest strain of any form of literature. It is the highest form of literature. It yields the highest form of pleasure, and teaches the highest form of wisdom. In a word, there is nothing to …more
Dangers to Avoid
cannot terminate these hints, often, I fear, too didactic and abrupt, upon the full use of one’s time to the great end of living (as distinguished from vegetating) without briefly referring to certain dangers which lie in wait for the sincere aspirant towards life. The first is the terrible danger of becoming that most odious and least supportable of persons—a prig. Now a prig is a …more
