You wake up in the morning with 96 fifteen minute blocks. It is yours. It is the most precious of your possessions. A highly singular commodity, showered upon you everyday! No one can take it from you. No one can steal it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Time is not exclusively for the rich or the intellect. The wealthy or the Genius are never rewarded even an extra hour a day. They receive the same 96 fifteen minutes just like you.

You'll never receive any punishment for wasting your infinitely precious commodity, and the supply will never be withheld from you. You will wake up again with another 96 fifteen minute time blocks,

Moreover, you cannot draw on the future. Impossible to get into debt! You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste tomorrow; it is kept for you. You cannot waste the next hour; it is kept for you.

This is truly a miracle isn't it?

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible; without it, nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

While everyone receives this same miracle, It's what you do with yours that makes the difference. From this 96 daily time blocks, you must spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul.

Its right use, its most effective use, is a matter of the highest urgency and of the most thrilling actuality. All depends on that. Your happiness - the elusive prize that you are all clutching for, my friends! - depends on that. Revised excerpt from Arnold Bennett's "The Daily Miracle"