GENERAL TIME WASTER
It is very important for you to
know that as you plan your time for the day, their will be distractions and
things that want to waste your time. You have to guard yourself against this.
This is the rule; anything that is not part of your daily plan must not be given
serious consideration except it is coming form your boss. Other things apart
from your boss can wait till evening or your plan them against the next day.
- EXCESSIVE SLEEP.
Do not love sleep or you will grow poor;
stay awake and you will have food to spare-Proverbs 20 vs. 13
"There
will be sleeping enough in the grave."~ Benjamin Franklin
Don’t blame me if I start with this. I don’t
mean to insult anyone or to ridicule anybody but the truth of the matter is
that the truth must be told. Some of us has slept away hour destines. Most of
us have sold our destinies to excessive sleep. Most of us spends one third of
our time on bed. The time we need to have invested in our lives and become
somebody in life is wasted on the altar of sleep. Sleep is good but when it is
excess it is destructive. You wonder why some people got more done with their
lives while others can not. It is because the former has successfully cut down
on number of hours he uses to sleep while the other has not. Listen, it takes
time to become something in life. In reading through some autobiographies and
biographies, I have discovered that successful people sleep less while
unsuccessful people sleep more. We need to sacrifice some of the time we use to
sleep and do something positive. Some people wonder why he is talking like
this. If you use eight (8) hours everyday to sleep, by the time you are sixty
(60) years of age you have spent twenty (20) years of your life on bed. It is
quite funny but it is real. If you can cut down on the number of hours you use
to sleep everyday and invest it in your life, in no time you will see how much
you would have achieved. Am I saying we should not sleep? No it has to be
moderate. Let look at the attitude of some successful people to sleep.
Thomas Edison
The great scientist remarked that he slept less than 5 hours a night.
Sleep is something that is
natural, but has the potential for being misused. In Franklin’s day,
industriousness and hard work were extremely important human virtues. Edison
adopted Franklin’s philosophy as well, and in both cases, it was important for
them to model their behavior in a way that suggested that they didn’t sleep
very much. To them, it meant that they were diligent and demanding in their
lives, and never lazy in any way. Franklin allocated only 4 hours of sleep
per night.
Instead of criticizing them for how they sleep, it is important for us to
check at our sleeping habits. Is my sleeping habit deterring me from succeeding
or not? Most of these men discovered that it takes time to make it in life that
is why some of them have to cut down on the number of hours they used to sleep.
In summary, Great People sleep less?
Changing lives by changing people perspective
Oluwaseyi Olawusi
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