k. Order is a great time saver, and we
certainly ought to be able to so adjust our living plan that we can have
a fair amount of time for self-improvement, for enlarging life. Yet many
people think that their only opportunity for self-improvement depends
upon the time left after everything else has been attended to.

What would a business man accomplish if he did not attend to important
matters until he had time that was not needed for anything else? The
good business man goes to his office in the morning and plunges right
into the important work of the day. He knows perfectly well that if he
attends to all the outside matters, all the details and little things
that come up, sees everybody that wants to see him, and answers all the
questions people want to ask, that it will be time to close his office
before he gets to his main business.

Most of us manage somehow to find time for the things we love. If one is
hungry for knowledge, if one yearns for self-improvement, if one has a
taste for reading, he will make the opportunity.

Where the heart is, there is the treasure. Where the ambition is, there
is time.

It takes not only resolution but also determination to set aside
unessentials for essentials, things pleasant and agreeable to-day for the
things that will prove best for us in the end. There is always
temptation to sacrifice future good for present pleasure; to put off
reading to a more convenient season, while we enjoy idle amusements or
waste the time in gossip or frivolous conversation.

The greatest things of the world have been done by those who systematized
their work, organized their time. Men who have left their mark on the
world have appreciated the preciousness of time, regarding it as the
great quarry.

If you want to develop a delightful form of enjoyment, to cultivate a new
pleasure, a new sensation which you have never before experienced, begin
to read good books, good periodicals, regularly every day. Do not tire
yourself by trying to read a great deal at first. Read a little at a
time, but read some every day, no matter how little. If you are faithful
you will soon acquire a taste for reading--the reading habit; and it
will, in time, give you infinite satisfaction, unalloyed pleasure.

In a gymnasium, one often sees lax, listless people, who, instead of
pursuing a systematic course of training to develop all the muscles of
the body, flit aimlessly from one thing to another, exerci