. DEVELOPMENT BY WILL-POWER _
first. Every man has 365 days a year. The one
capital that everyone possesses is time. If a
man cannot handle his time well, he would
soon mishandle a fortune. The first step in
the right direction is to set a higher value upon
time and to use it for one’s own ends.
Life is short. Few young men realize this
as keenly as older men do. Many young men
value a day no more than a dry leaf blowing
in the autumn wind. They fritter away the
first ten years of their business lives, as though
they expected to live for a thousand years.
Naturally, until a man has a Purpose, he
diddles his time away. He thinks only of
amusement. He goes to a cinema to *‘ kill
time.” He is bored by leisure. He wastes his
precious days as recklessly as though he were
going to live for ever.
The latest biography of the Czar says that
right up to the outbreak of the Bolshevist
Revolution, he was ‘‘ absorbed in trifles,
stubborn and weak, and hopelessly out of touch
with the feeling of his country.” Immediately
before the crash, he. was ‘‘ thinking seriously
of taking up dominoes in his spare time.”
““ Taking up dominoes!” Now you can
see why he was the last of the Czars. The head
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