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...This book touches a sensitive nerve-how to make the most of available time. Though it is aimed primarily at businessmen who know they waste time and wish they didn't, its lessons apply to nearly everyone. One major cure for chronic time wasters, according to Edwin Bliss, a management consultant, is to write out lists setting priorities. Facing the truth tends to clarify things. Yes, indeed...
...Bliss's style is terse, occasionally leavened by anecdote. Unlike C. Northcote Parkinson and Laurence J. Peter, Bliss's purpose is not amusing originality but utility. He is serious. He refers to his readers directly as "you." He has some sympathy for time wasted, but not much. After all, it's your life that is slipping away so irretrievably...
...listing the reasons for delay on one side of a piece of paper and the benefits from completing the job on the other-and then feel ashamed of your irrational lethargy; or (c) picking an important, if unpleasant, chore and completing it the first thing every day. According to Bliss, that will soon break the procrastinating habit...
...Bliss proves by example as well as precept that he is conscious of every minute. Reading time for his little book is about one hour-if one can spare the time...
Step Toward Bliss. Such persistence is not hard to fathom. The Dalai Lama is, after all, believed to be the very reincarnation of the Buddha in Buddhism's Tibetan variant. To see him during one of his rare public appearances is a step toward bliss. To hear the Wheel of Time sermon, however, is a guaranteed shortcut to nirvana. Such a blessing is rarely available. A Dalai Lama delivers the sermon only a few times during his lifetime, six being the customary maximum. At Leh, the current Dalai Lama was delivering his sixth sermon...