Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

Decide to Become Rich
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WASTING TIME AT WORK
The average employed person puts in about 40 hours per week on
the job, but only about 32 hours of that is officially working time.
Fully 50 percent of time spent at work is wasted in idle socializing
with co-workers, personal telephone calls, and personal business.
Average employees start a little later, take long coffee breaks and
lunch hours, and leave a little earlier. Even managers privately re-
port that they spend fully half of the time they are at work doing
things that have absolutely nothing whatever to do with the job.
Only about 5 percent of people working today work full-time on
their jobs from the time they begin each day until the time they fin-
ish. These people are the ones on the fast track in their careers. They
are moving upward and onward, getting paid more and being pro-
moted faster. They are the movers and shakers in every business,
and everyone knows who they are.
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