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Killing Time: How to Manage Interruptions

Thomas Edison had it right

Danita Johnson Hughes Ph.D.
Mon, 04/04/2011 - 06:00
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Read this. It won’t be a waste of time.

Time gets lost. People kill time. Time flies. It gets wasted. Time weighs heavy on our hands. We spend time. Time passes. It drags on or it hurries by. Those behind bars are said to be doing time. Sometimes, we have no time left; we’re out of time.

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According to the great American inventor, Thomas Edison, “Time is really the only capital any human being has, and the one thing he can’t afford to waste.”

The perception of not having enough time for the things we must do, or just as important, the things we want to do, is a leading cause of stress in society today. Continued exposure to stress can have an adverse effect on a person’s health, both physical and mental.

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