Article February 10, 1934 Issue

Valuing Your Time

[Written Especially for Young People]

KATHARINE WARREN KING

In school and college life it often becomes a problem to find enough time for needed study, desirable activities, and recreation. Overemphasis upon any one of these is apt to result in neglect of the others. A helpful way to find enough time and to distribute it wisely is to value it. When this is done, none will be wasted.

In his Commencement address to a graduating class a speaker once remarked that many of us waste much of our time in making our own movies, and that we are very careful to cast ourselves for the parts of hero or heroine! We can make good use of our time by studying instead of thinking about studying; by actively participating in useful activities where we are needed, instead of imagining the part we should like to take in them.

When reading of the lives of men and women who have contributed much good to humanity, we find that they valued their time, and did not waste it. They gave it freely where needed. This shows that by entertaining constructive, right ideas such people protected their thinking from vain, idle thoughts. It is often remarked that when something is to be done quickly and well it is wise to ask a busy, successful person to do it, such a one having learned to think and act speedily and accurately.

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