GETTING UP EARLY
VIRTUES OF CHANGING HABITS. One winter I read most of Spencer’s works and many other books on philosophy by using the hours between five in the morning and breakfast time, writes Mr Thomas Drier in his book, “Sunny Meadows.” It was easy for me to get up shortly after four when I had a definite object. Nothing is hard when ye really want to. do it. Instead of being a hardship, getting up early was so easy I sometimes wonder why I ever grew lazy. Recently I have been trying early rising again and once more have found joys which would never bo mine if I stayed in bed. Just now I am thinking of the sun coming over the pine grove, as I saw it across the meadow a few mornings ago when I was out for a walk with my dog. And this morning, after lighting a fire in the study fireplace, I started dictating before six. How peaceful the place was! I seemed to be living and working in a new world. What splendid journeys one may take right at home by the simple act of changing one s habits!
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1939, Page 6
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196GETTING UP EARLY Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1939, Page 6
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