Article September 14, 1968 Issue

Valuable Moments

[For young adults]

EVELYN MAY GARNHAM

To value moments and to organize one's time is to gain the greatest advantage from college life. The very moments the student is inclined to waste can, if improved and utilized, ensure success. One should not let even unexpected spare moments slip from his grasp but by using them save them from oblivion.

By using precious moments such as another squanders, many a man has built his reputation or contributed to the world a valuable invention, inspired writing, or an indispensable ability. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Success in life depends upon persistent effort, upon the improvement of moments more than upon any other one thing."^{Miscellaneous Writings, p. 230;}

The student needs to be wise in his decisions. If he intends to demonstrate academic success, he needs to understand how to distinguish between the essential and nonessential claims upon his time. To do this he needs to pray for guidance that an intelligent way to organize his daily life may unfold. If he understands that his perfect selfhood, as the reflection of God, Principle, includes the qualities of wisdom and intelligence, order and exactness, and that this self knows and does what is according to divine Principle, the student will not waver when the suggestions of personal sense try to draw him away from the right sense of accomplishment.

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