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Time Management
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Something to Think About
Imagine a bank that credits your account each morning
with $86,400. But, since it doesn’t carry over a balance
from one day to the next, any money you fail to spend today will be
deleted from your account.
What would you do? You’d probably draw out every penny, every
single day, before closing time. And—if you’re smart—you’d invest
some of it for your tomorrows.
Each of us has a bank very much like this imaginary one. It’s called
TIME.
Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it
writes off, as lost, whatever seconds you’ve failed to use to your
advantage. It carries no balance. It permits no overdrafts. If you fail to
make full use of the day’s deposit, you lose what you don’t use.
Each of us has the same number of seconds to use as we think
best, but we don’t all use them to best advantage and we don’t all
invest them wisely.
The clock is ticking. Don’t let those precious seconds slip away.

dramatically—and it’s measured as much in time as it is in
money. We’re more conscious of time passing than people were
even 25 years ago. It almost seems that we need the increased
life spans we enjoy today just to squeeze in all the living we
want to do.
But we really can assert control over those things that eat
into our productivity, our leisure time, and our peace of mind.
It’s largely a matter of being open to change, willing to adapt to
new opportunities, and eager to develop and maintain the skills
necessary to exert that control. How do you start? By analyzing
who you are and your “style” of managing time.

Knowing Your Time Management Style
The preface to this book emphasizes the need to remember that
we’re all individuals. We do not all work—or even learn—in the
same way. Some of us, for example, are visual in style: we learn
by seeing. Some people, on the other hand, are auditory in
style, learning and working best through hearing. And still others