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Show Wasting Time We all know that an important item in business succe?s is the efficient use of every working hour; yes, every working work-ing moment Waste of time means failure, fail-ure, just as does waste of money, and the woman who makes the business luccess is the one who uses her time thoroughly and intelligently. But though we recognize this fact perfectly per-fectly when it comes to the business of work, and though every woman of ambition am-bition pu s it into strict practice, there isn't one in a hundred among us who doesn't throw away time to a pitiable extent when it comes to the business of living. Yet surely life ought to be the supreme business with each of us. And we ought to run it quite as efficintly as we run our work. Just as we can't do all the work there is to be done, so we can't do all the living. But we can choose the best use for our brains and hearts and bodies in the life business, as we try to do in the work business. We ought not to throw away precious, unredeemable unredeem-able minutes at any time, whether we are on our job or not. And by this I don't mean that we shouldn't take plenty plen-ty of rest and indulge in lots of fun. These aren't a waste of time. But dawdling is; not usingyout- intelligence intelli-gence to save your steps is; doing things over twice or doing things not worth doing at all all these are pure watte of time, a giving of it away for nothing or worse than nothing. And it's the trivial wastes that count up so much in the aggregate. A girl I know will sit for a quarter of an hour on the edge of her bed wondering if she can find time to darn the hole in the heel of her stocking. And how many of us habitually read columns in the paper pa-per eyery morning in which we haven't the least interest, and which we don't remember an hour, instead of simply sticking to what is valuable to us, or else reread the item idly, hardly knowing know-ing what we do? Vacillation is an immense waste of time, and of character, too. People take ten times the time necessary to do their shopping because they can't make up their minds what they really want or need. It is better to make up your mind wrong than not to make it up at all. Many a woman will spend an hour trying to decide whether or not she will go for a walk, or to make that call she owes, or else look in on the dressmaker and end by doing nothing. There is nothing no-thing to show for that sort of thing and n addition it is more tiring than any amount of exertion. By all ni-ans take all the time you want or can gvc to do the things that are worth doing lot them be big or small. But on't throw the moments away in inefficient, incompetent incompe-tent acts and thoughts. Lite is always too short fur ail we wish to make of-it, but if we go about it in the right way it will be full aid inspiring. Don't waste it by putting into it empty and futile hours. |