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December 28, 2007
making time expand
There is another way of lengthening one's life that lies wholly within our power. Rise early, purposeful employment of our time, selection of the most suitable means for achieving an end we have in view and its vigorous employment once it is selected. It is possible to grow very old in this way provided we have ceased to measure our life by the calendar...Once you have decided to undertake a piece of work it is not a good thing to keep the whole of it before your mind; I at least have found doing so very disheartening. What you should do is work at that which lies immediately to hand, and when that is finished go on to the next...To start on a thing straightaway without putting it off for a minute, much less an hour or a day, is likewise a way of making time expand.
George Lichtenberg
Posted by amin at December 28, 2007 1:05 AM