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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 27 May 1992, p. 8

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+ Decks + Cedar T&QG + Gazebos *« Lumber + Cedar Trim + 885â€"1702 The SuperStore For Cedar & Decks If there is no time limit, start with the job you least want to do. Put in that order, your day will become more enjoyable and it is a good way to eliminate procrastination. If a bricklayer were to contemplate only the size of the job facing him, he might be so dauunted by it that he would never get started. But he knows that all he has to do is lay one brick at a time until the job is completed. What‘s so fearful about that? Most of us have days when ‘the roof falls in‘, and we may feel there is just no way we can cope with it all. Some will throw up the towel! and prepare for the consequences of doing nothing. But the wise ones will look at each task in turn, decide where to get help if necessary, put first things first, then forget about time and concentrate on one job at a time. Those who panic at the thought of their workload have a neurosis about time based on the false assumption that we can ‘manage time‘ or ‘make time‘ or ‘save time‘, all of which are impossible. But as long as they feed these neagative attitudes into their subconscious minds, they will become anxious about time passing, instead of concentrating on the tasks at hand. They waste time just worrying about time passing, instead of realizing that it is going to pass anyway and that they should be concerned about using it to the best advantage. This cockeyed notion of time causes us to say such stupid things as, ‘I don‘t have time for that‘. Of course you have the time, but you choose not to use it in that way. That‘s okay, but why blame time? Or we say, ‘I‘ll give it to her, she has more time than I have‘. How can she possibly have more time than anyone else? What you mean is that she has less to do with her time. Those who knbw that all we can do with time is either use it or waste it, concentrate on managing their activities to use it in the best way possible; and manage to alternate it adequately between periods of activity aftd rest. Geoff Fellows operates the Human Resource Development Institute, P.O. Box 642, Cambridge N1R 5W1, Tel. 623â€"0283, providing effectiveness training for business and industry. Too often we allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by the size of the tasks that face us, without realizing that they can be broken down to small steps, which, dealt with one at a time, will lead to total accomplishment. Students at the start of the school year, with an armful of new textbooks, are often devastated by the total amount of work they are expected to get through. They overlook the fact that they have 10 months to take it, step by step, through to completion. People in business can be prostrated before a desk piled high with all the things that they have to get done, until they realize that the first thing to do is to plan their workload, set their orger of priority, and then work on each one in turn. There is an allegory about a grandfather clock that, as it was put in place for the first time, contemplated its future. It reasoned that it would have to tick twice each second, or 120 times each minute, which meant 7,200 times each hour. In 24 hours it would have to complete 172,800 ticks. This would mean 63,072,000 times a year. In 10 years it would have to tick 630,720,000 times. At this point, it collapsed from nervous exhaustion. When it revived, it saw in a moment of insight that all it had to do was one tick at a time. So it began. And now, after a hundred years, it is still a respected grandfather clock. Time â€" you either use it or waste it House o Cedar 210 Regina St. N., Waterioo based on international developâ€" ment," Hill says of the program. "It provides a circumstance where youth can see developing countries, and experience a lifeâ€" style unfamiliar to Western ways. That‘s why I really want to go. I think it‘s importafit that I know more than just my narrow Westâ€" ern view, especially if I intend to further my education in internaâ€" tional development." Both Hill and Michol are interâ€" University of Waterloo, I‘ve been working on a minor in internaâ€" tional studies in addition to envirâ€" onmental studies. And I guess more and more, I realized that in order to even begin to understand how other people live, you really have to go to where they live." Canada World Youth is a nonâ€" governmental, nonâ€"profit organizâ€" ation which operates education youth exchanges between Canada and countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbeâ€" an. Now in its 20th year, the program has involved more than 36 exchange countries and 7,800 i copants. "It‘s a cultural exchange that‘s at UW, has applied to the proâ€" gram for the past two years. She, too, was overwhelmed by the news of her acceptance. "I‘ve been interested in travelâ€" ing to a developing country for quite a while, and I‘ve always environmental studies program "After I got the letter, I was dancing on the lawn. All my roommates were laughing at me, but I was so excited," Hill says. "I‘ve been applying for three years, but I finally got in this year, and I couldn‘t believe it." Similarly, Michol, also in an Experience of a lifetime Two UW students selected to join Canada World Youth exchange Deborah Crandall For the first three and a half months of the program, each g;mdimplrticipnntmdhisw foreign exchange counterpart livewit.hlhutflm.ilyinCanuh, and are involved in volunteer community work projects. For those first three and half months, Hill and Michol will live with host families in a rural &mmumtymaanttho}um im, likely assisting in local schools and day care facilities. Though the first phase of the program won‘t be as culturally dynamic for the Canadians, it will set the tone for the second In October, the participants will depart for India where they will also take part in community work , making career decisions. The program lasts for a total of seven months, and for the duraâ€" tion of the program, each Canaâ€" dian participant is matched with ested in careers in international development, and both feel this Canada World Youth exchange program. Lesiey Hill (left) and Jennifer Michol, both Wawloo students. will favel to ingle imis your asâ€"pant Of the 39,000 S$q. Ft. Allâ€"Indoor Warehouse & SuperStore 6 Grades, Everything in Cedar! Clear, Nearâ€"clear, Knotty Cedar Sikkens Cetol Woodfinishes Whiripools & Spas from $599 through community donations, to contribute to the cost. together to raise $1,000. Those interested in financially supportâ€" ing the young Waterloo women may do so by contacting Lesley Hill at 747â€"4381. through the Canadian Internaâ€" tional Development Association, in a rural setting, will not speak will likely speak English well. But my host family, which will be projects. Hill and Michol have already begun to prepare for that leg of the journey. "I‘m thrilled about it, but I‘m anxious and a bit nervous," Hill says. ‘"You have to be very cutlurâ€" ally sensitive, and I don‘t want to offend anybody. We also have to learn Hindi â€"â€" (program organiz ers) encouraged us to start readâ€" ing up on it now. And when I Deborah Crandall photo . She

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