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"How You Spend Your Time Determines the Quality of Your Life and Career"

This post was written by Cordell Parvin: "...There is no way to add more hours to your day. Other than the weekend when daylight savings time falls back to standard time, there are only 168 hours each week. The real question is how well you use those hours to achieve your priorities.

Suppose you sleep 8 hours a night, or 56 hours a week. Suppose you bill 40 hours a week and you invest another 10 hours a week on your career development, client development and other firm activities. That leaves 62 waking hours of personal time for family, fitness, community, church, recreation, hobbies, commuting and other activities. 

How you spend the 10 hours a week (or whatever number) of investment time will ultimately determine the quality of your career. How you spend the 62 hours (or whatever number) of family and personal time will ultimately determine the quality of your life and family relationships..."

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Source: Law Consulting Blog, 14 September 2010. © 2010, Cordell Parvin LLC. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).