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And thought scattering is tenfold more wasteful and
wicked than time and money scattering.
Nothing in this life is so precious as our mental
forces.
Upon our use of them depends our spiritual development, our usefulness to humanity and our
physical well being, to a great degree.
I am not discussing this topic (or any topic) from
a lofty altitude of one who claims to be a model of
achievement in that particular line. I discuss it rather,
and all kindred subjects, as one who has learned the
need of such discussions from personal experience,
and innumerable mistakes, and consequent regrets.
The one remedy for this tendency to idea scattering is to put the check of Will upon the mind; to practise listening with attention, no matter how slightly
interested we may be; make the interview short, if the
topic discussed is boring you, but while you listen in
seeming, listen in fact. Think of nothing but of what
you are hearing. Pay absolute attention. No matter
how trivial the duty you are performing, devote your
whole mind to its performance.
Then, when it is accomplished, turn your mental
powers in some other direction with equal steadiness.
Let your mind be the search light, and your will
the hand that turns it from one point to another.
But while it falls in any one spot, keep it steady.
That is what concentration means.
That is what the first step to success means.
It is slow work to regain this lost power.
It is like regaining lost health. But it can be done.
Think of only one thing at a time. Focus all your
faculties on that one while it is the matter under consideration.
