title: The Secret of the Thirteenth Month: Harvesting the Time to Achieve Your Life's Dreams
author:  Mr Jan Schrader 
description: Jan Schrader and David Thomasson are co-authors of The Secret of the Thirteenth Month, the book encapsulating the Time Harvesting concept they developed and tested over a ten-plus-year time frame. Both Jan and David have had careers in various fields of sales and marketing first as individual producers and then in various levels of management. Jans emphasis was in financial services while Davids was in high-tech electronic consumer and commercial products. Sharing a keen interest in sales management, the two colleagues began collaboration on a unique book that would provide a pathway to sales excellence with emphasis on areas of personal development they felt were overlooked or understated in typical sales training programs. In the course of developing that book they became acutely aware of the incredible importance of time-related issues pertaining to self-improvement. This led them from their original book plan to the development of the principle of Time Harvesting and ultimately to the creation of The Secret of the Thirteenth Month, a series of strategies for identifying and utilizing valuable bits of overlooked and unused time. It is the authors desire that many will find their lives enriched by assimilating and employing the Time Harvesting principles.
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  The Twelve Months. A New Year's Dream  
    
  
  
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  # The Twelve Months. A New Year's Dream
  
  
  ### Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE mystic hour had come: the parting year  
  
  
  Sighed its adieu, — the midnight bell had tolled  
  
  
  Its last sad requiem.  
  
  
  It was an hour for fancy's wildest range,  
  
  
  And in a magic trance my steps she led  
  
  
  Down to the caverns of the hoary deep.  
  
  
  Fair was the place; no mortal eye before  
  
  
  Had e'er upon its radiant glories gazed; —  
  
  
  No foot of man e'er sullied its pure strands.  
  
  
  Around the cave a light unearthly shone,  
  
  
  By whose clear beam the cavern's vast extent  
  
  
  Throughout its wide expansion stood revealed.  
  
  
  High rose the brilliant walls of crystal clear,  
  
  
  And many a sparkling gem to earth unknown  
  
  
  Flashed its bright radiance there. The