mercial flashing on our TV screens these days shows men and women trying to buy a bit of time. It catches the plight1 of most of us in our hurry-scurry2 world. “I don’t want a 40-hour week,” says Nicholas Murray Butler, former president of Columbia University. “I want a 40-hour day.”
I never cease to marvel at how some people, working with the same number of hours we all have, seem to get so much more done. How do they do it?
For one thing, they, don’t squander3 the bits and pieces of time that punctuate our days. Rather than wasting energy getting irritated waiting for a phone c