USE AND WASTE OF TIME.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 923, 6 February 1872, Page 3

USE AND WASTE OF TIME.

A life organised with order and purpose has always time for most things ; one left to chance, which means chaos, is not able to pick up ten consecutive minutes out of the heap of waste and irrecularity to which is reduced the pleasant harmony of the hours. No excuse is so pitiful as this of want of time wherein to do your duties, to fulfil your engagements, to get through your appointed tasks. If it is a real excuse, you are simply over-weighted and your first business ought to be cut off those of your bnrdens you (ian spare best, ami which you fulfil worst; but if it is only an apparent excuse, and not a reality, the fault lies, not in your having too much to do, but in the bad arratigement —not in the want but in the waste of time. Then the great, thing to do is to rearrange your work and your time, and to make the m fit in more harmoniously together.

There aro somo peoplo who have the faculty of making use of every .moment. Some learned divine, •whoso name at this moment wo forgot, is said to havo written a book during tho odd fivo minutes whon his wife was putting on her bonnet; and many women do all their little bits of fancy work and the like in idle moments of the day, when neither work nor play comes into, the organization. All great men,and successful worker's have been careful of these odd corners of the hours, unconsidered five minutes, = which others waste as of no value to anyone. On tho other hand most unsuccessful people have had hazy ideas of the value of time and of its length—have been prodigal of their hours, and git'en to losing their five minutes everywhere, with the air of moneyed men who spend a few shillings while having thousands at their back, then wonder why it is they can get nothing done, and fall foul of the want of time, when they should blame their own want of method.—" The Queen."