DEVELOPMENT BY WILL-POWER

Few of us ever value our time as Ford does.
Consequently, we must be content with a
smaller measure of success.

Hundreds of business men find themselves
brought to a standstill by these Time-Lifters.
What with visitors, letters, social engagements
and week-ends handed over to friends, they
have no time for themselves. And the most
serious part of it is that this frittering away of
time tends to destroy the will-power. It
weakens the group of concepts in the brain
that is acting as the will.
The fact is that any man who has a Purpose
must, for a certain time every week or every
day, live a cloistered life. He must shut out
the world. He must have a certain amount of
time to himself. This is a hard saying, but
there is no easier way to accomplish anything
worth while.

My own rule, which I made when I was
twenty-four, is to do something creative every
day. I have never allowed any day to be wholly
taken up with routine work or pleasure or
social engagements, with the exception of
holidays.

If I find at the end of a day that I have
actually done nothing creative, I reserve at
least a half-hour to myself before I go to bed.
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