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Continuous and Never-Ending Improvement

Work on developing and improving yourself every day. If you

were to read something for one hour a day that improved

your ability to do your work, that would put you in the top

one percent in our society within five years.

Listen to educational audio programs when you are traveling in your car. Today, virtually all of the finest information

and ideas that have ever been assembled in English, or in

any language, are available as audio recordings on CDs or

downloads to a smartphone or tablet.

The average commuter spends 500 to 1,000 hours per

year in the car. Thats twelve or twenty forty-hour weeks,

which is equivalent to one or two university semesters. This

means that you can get the benefit of almost full-time university attendance by simply turning traveling time into

learning time. If you are not listening to audio programs in

your car or when traveling, you are missing out on one of the

great learning opportunities that exist today

THE FINAL POINT about time management is the concept

of balance. The most important thing that you can instill in

your life is balance and moderation. By practicing the methods, ideas, and techniques in this book, you will become a

master time manager, and have more time for your family

and your personal life.

Often, people take time management programs so that

they can increase the number of things that they can do on

a day-to-day basis. However, as the wise man said, There is

more to life than simply increasing its speed.

The main purpose of learning and practicing time management skills is to enhance and improve the overall quality

of your life. It is to increase the amount of pleasure and happiness you experience. No matter how appropriate your job is for you, the quality of

your life is going to be largely determined by three things.

The first is the quality of your inner life: how well you get

along with yourself, how much you like yourself, and how

good you feel about your character and personality. Inner

development takes time and reflection, plus reading and

thinking about the great questions of life.

The second area is your health. No amount of success

will compensate for ill health. Take time to eat the right

foods, exercise regularly, and get proper rest and recreation.

Sometimes, the best use of your time is to go to bed early

and get a good nights sleep.

Finally, and most important of all, take time for your

relationships. The people you care about and who care

about you are the most critical factors in your life. Never

allow yourself to get so caught up in your work that you

ignore the primacy of those key relationships with your

spouse, children, and close friends.

A great life is one that is in balance. If you spend

sufficient time preserving and enhancing the quality of your

relationships, you will find that you get more joy, satisfaction,

and fulfillment out of your work; youll find success.

A wise old doctor once observed, I never spoke to a

businessman on his deathbed who said that he wished he

had spent more time in the office.

Thank you, and good luck in using these ideas in every

part of your life

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