Well, what has all this to do with Concentering?
Just this, that the interest and brains that a man puts
into his work is the result of an exercise of
volitional concentering. The man who practices
concentering in his daily life, shuts out distracting
impressions, and gives his best thought force to the
task before him, and does better work by reason
thereof, whether he be day laborer, architect, clerk,
salesman, poet, painter or banker. Every man who has
"arrived" has developed the art of concentering. He may
not realize it, but he has, just the same. And more,
any man who will develop the art of concentering will
"arrive." Try it and be convinced. Why, you can see it
for yourself; it cannot help producing the result. If
you concenter on an object, and hold the thought
firmly, you cannot help doing the best work, and if you
do the best work you will receive the proper reward,
providing you have the sense with which you were born,
and have not allowed yourself to be hypnotized into a
belief that you are a worm of the dust, or a human
doormat. If you do the best work, you will find a
market for your services; if your present employer
doesn't appreciate you, there are plenty of others who
will. But you will have to do the work - don't forget
that. No man is going to be fool enough to pay you for
something that you do not do. Oh, no, he is not built
that way, and he would not "arrive" if he did. But,
just the same, he will not permit you to leave his
employ for that of his rival, if you do the best work,
and you will do the best work if you only will get down
to business, and concenter. If you have been
discouraged by your apparent lack of success in your
vocation, just you learn how to concenter and do it;
spit on your hands and take a fresh grip, a little high
up, and pull for all you're worth. You just pull hard
enough, and something will be sure to give at the other
end of the rope. Don't you waste your time complaining
of the "oppression of Capital" and all that sort of
thing. If you are a "concentering" man, Capital will
soon fall all over itself to secure your services, or
to buy your goods. Can't you see it, man? Of course you
do. Well, then, stop fooling around about it, and get
to work in earnest. Get a move on, and hustle. If you
refuse to accept the means of financial salvations now
offered you, why just lie around and be a human doormat
all your life; who cares! If a man is too lazy to be
saved, why, just let him be -the other thing. It serves
him right. Some of you fellows need a man around you
with a spiked club, with instructions to give you a
good bang every time you slack up and engage in mental
wool-gathering. Stop your "moaning" and get down to
business. Some people spend their life in dreaming of
the hereafter, where they expect to spend their time
"loafing around the throne." Now, they're sure to be
fooled about that. All Nature is in motion, and God is
working hard every day, and I believe that when you get
to the other shore you will be confronted with a sign
having thereon inscribed the words, "NO LOAFING
PERMITTED." If you take an interest in your work, you
rob it of its terrors. Start in, man, and work out your
own salvation from poverty and unhappiness. Do it, and
do it NOW.
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