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How to Make Your Spare Time Work for You
How to make the best use of your spare time
By Anne-Marie RONSEN
The profitable use you make of spare time will assist you
in developing your ability. There are 24 hours in each day.
Each week has 168 hours. Your vocation takes up 40 hours.
This leaves you with 128 hours each week to sleep, to eat,
to entertain, to relax, and to improve yourself. By using only
10 per cent of this spare time, you have almost two hours
per day to read, to study, to think, to meditate, to reflect,
and to improve your capacity to perform. A few hours each
week wisely used will enhance your prospects for a promotion or for an increase in salary. Efficiency on your job, and an understanding of your job bring added remuneration.
Spare time may be organized effectively. Using it con-
structively is both interesting and profitable. Decide now to
make use of it. Draw up a program and adhere to it.
Spare time, used to develop a hobby, an avocation, or self-
knowledge, helps to form good habits. Spare time is your
property. One man has as much time as another. No one
can deprive you of it. The use you make of it largely deter-
mines your progress. Fill each minute with 60 seconds. It is
not the days or the hours that you waste; it is the precious
seconds and minutes. Take care of the minutes; the hours
will take care of themselves, and the days will take care of
you.
Here are six suggestions that will help you make the best
use of your spare time:
1. Try to spend one hour each day in silent meditation.
Read, reflect, and review.
2. Select one subject, take pencil and paper, and write
down every thought you have on that subject. Spend 20 to
30 minutes each day doing this.
3. Write a letter. Try not to use the words "I," "me," "my,"
and mine.
4. Try to converse at least 15 minutes each day without
using the words "I," "me," "my," and "mine."
5. Try to write a little article each day, either explaining,
relating, or defining something.
6. Spend at least 15 minutes each day reviewing and ana-
lyzing your experience. Endeavor to visualize and idealize
all your relationships with prospects and customers in a
spirit of gratitude and appreciation. It will help you to dis-
cover their interests. It will help you to form ideas that are
wonderful to them, because they will feel wonderful with
your ideas.
Merely putting in hours does not sell or win a promotion.
It is injecting your ability into the hours that wins recogni-
tion and guarantees a reward. Experience is the knowledge,
wisdom, and skill gained through a wise use of time.
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