How to Achieve Your Goals, Manage Time, and Truly Live 24 Hours A Day: The Creative Entrepreneur

By Beth Ann Erickson

Write. Dance. Read. Enjoy Music. Create. What Do You Enjoy?

Do you want the time to finish a special project, work on your dream, read a favorite book, but just aren't sure how to carve some time out of your already packed schedule?

Well, I'm about to rock your world.

Slating time to truly live within a 24 hour period shouldn't be treated as a luxury, it's a necessity. I believe the happiest people are those who take the time to pursue their dream.

I know what you're thinking. You're busy. Real busy. Not to worry. I know what it's like to hold down a full time job, raise a family, volunteer for worthy organizations, hold tight to a dream... and try to ferret a few spare minutes for yourself.

But, what's the biggest problem when it comes to managing your time? If you really want to take charge of your life, don't do what most people do – wait for life to slow down. It'll never happen. Don't let your dreams languish. Take charge of your life.

Time management is not only simple but, if you take the (short) contents of this manual to heart, you'll soon find your dreams take flight.

Yes, time management can be effortless and (most importantly) enjoyable. Let me show you how.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Filbert Publishing
• Release date: Nov 9, 2016
• ISBN: 9781540131447

Book preview

How to...

Achieve Your Goals, Manage Time and

Truly Live 24 Hours A Day

The Creative Entrepreneur Series

Based on

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

by Arnold Bennett

Book and Workbook Revised and Edited by

Beth Ann Erickson

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Table of Contents

Preface

The Daily Miracle

The Desire To Move Beyond Your Daily Routine

Precautions Before Beginning

The Cause Of The Troubles

Passion And The Immortal Soul

Remember Human Nature

Controlling Your Mind

The Reflective Mood

Interest In The Arts

Nothing In Life Is Humdrum

Serious Reading

Dangers To Avoid

Final Comments

About Beth

Preface

By Beth Ann Erickson

I’m a writer. However, this isn’t a book about writing, per se. Despite its lack of hard core information about the brotherhood of the pen, it yielded a dramatic impact on my writing career.

You see, until I discovered this productivity powerhouse I pretty much flitted from one project to the next without much thought. I definitely reacted to life rather than providing a calculated, measured actions moving towards that which I desired.

Big difference.

Since implementing the instructions (very simple ones, I may add) outlined in this tiny, yet powerful book, my life, indeed my writing career, has assumed a power that I didn’t know existed.

Yeah. I’ve worked hard throughout my writing career. But I rarely worked smart. That’s what this book taught me.

So here’s what I’ve done: I’ve edited it; made it a bit easier to read while trying to maintain the tone and essence Mr. Bennett originally weaved throughout this manuscript. I've also crafted a few fast workbook questions at the end of many chapters.

I also suggest you Google the books we mention in this edition, they’re an excellent addition to your library.

So, onward and upward.

I hope you enjoy this book. I also hope I did Mr. Bennett proud. But most of all, I hope you take his advice to heart and start to live your life as fully as humanly possible. And finally, I hope your dream life arrives long before you’re too old to enjoy it.

Beth Erickson

The Daily Miracle

"Yes, they're one of those people who don't know how to manage their life. Good situation. Regular income. Quite enough for luxuries as well as needs. Not really extravagant.

"And yet they're always in difficulties. Somehow they get nothing out of their money. Excellent home – in debt up to their eyeballs. New suit—old hat! Magnificent necktie — baggy trousers! Asks you to dinner: cut glass—bad food, or cheap coffee—cracked cup! They can't understand where their money goes.

The explanation simply is that they fritter their income away. I wish I had half of what they wasted, I'd show them...

So we have, most of us, criticized at one time or another, in our superior way.

We are nearly all the head of our own personal version of the Internal Revenue Service. Newspapers are full of articles explaining how to live on such-and-such an income, and these articles provoke a very interesting question within me.

For example, recently, in a daily magazine, a battle raged around the question on whether a family could exist in the country on a ridiculously meager income per year. I have seen an essay, How to live on a couple hundred dollars a week.

But I have never seen an essay on, How to live on twenty-four hours a day.

Yet it has been said that time is money. That proverb understates the case. Time is a great deal more valuable than money.

Usually, if you have time you can obtain money. But though you have the wealth of Midas, you cannot buy yourself even one more minute.

Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time.

It is the inexplicable raw material of everything.