Significance of Concentration

Significance of Concentration

Orison Swett Marden 

There is no more powerful magnet in the world for attracting the thing we desire, no force more effective in realizing the ambition we long to attain than concentration. It has been the chief factor in all the great achievements of history.

It is the cornerstone of success in every line; the principle upon which all progress is based. All the inventions, all the discoveries, all the modem facilities, which the world enjoys are the children of focused minds.

Whatever you long to be, or to have, you can be, you can have, by focusing your mind and concentrating your efforts on that one thing.

There is no such thing as succeeding in anything by chance. The greatest genius in the world never created a masterpiece in any line—by chance. Concentration is the master key to all success. It is the fundamental law of achievement.

The man who does not concentrate will be either a half success, a mediocrity, or a complete failure.

Emerson says, "The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation." Scattering our energies, dissipating our creative force, failing to bring our mind to a focus and to hold it there, is responsible for nine-tenths of the failures in life and most of the poverty of the world.

Concentration is indispensable to success in anything. As Dr. Julia Seaton says: "Concentration is the vital essence of all life, and without it there is no real purpose, no real control.

Upon the power of concentration more than upon any other one thing, depends" our law of attracting, controlling and mastering life's conditions."

If you feel discouraged because you are not getting on as you hoped you would, something is wrong. Your mind is not pulling in harmony with your effort on the physical plane.

Something has arrested your progress, and that something is a mental stumbling-block which you yourself put in your path.

You are not thinking yourself on; you are not putting yourself in the getting-on current by concentrating with confidence, with faith, along the line of your ambition.

Discouragement, doubt, a wavering, divided mind, the scattering of your efforts, something or other is neutralizing the force which would naturally take you to your goal.

Don't be afraid of being known as a man of one idea. The men who have moved the world have been men of this kind. It is the man who has his purpose burned into every fiber of his being, who has the faculty of focusing his scattered energies on one point as a burning glass focuses the scattered rays of the sun, who succeeds.