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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index

and a vigorous body, possesses the ability to hold its mind to one thought.

It is after the mind begins to be crowded with a multiplicity of ideas that the thought scattering process sets in.

Many people imagine that concentration means to think of only one subject all the time.

But the person who does that becomes a monomaniac, and a bore, however he may succeed in his chosen line.

The successful musician, and actor, and writer, and inventor, is often a being of this kind, and heaven preserve us from his society.

He not only thinks of one subject continually, but he talks it continually, which makes men and women with a repertoire of ideas fly at his approach. There is no necessity of this kind of concentration to insure success.

All that is needed is to think of one subject at a time; to put all your mental machinery in action on that subject.

If you have selected music as a profession, think, talk and dream music for a certain period of time each day.

Drive away all other thoughts while you are working on those lines.

But when you have finished your allotted task, and the time you have set apart for this study expires, then concentrate upon whatever subject presents itself with equal persistency.

If some friend talks to you of books, fashion or current events do not let your mind roam back to music and give but half attention to his conversation. That is the way thought scattering begins with many of us:

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