Judy Williamson, Director of Napoleon Hill World Leaning Center talks straight to my heart in Vintage Essays. She talking about FOCUS. Controlled attention to focus is create the better results we achieve. The more we focus, the better the results we achieve. Focus focus, focus, and your life’s journey will end up exactly at the destination you determined well in advance.

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Controlled Attention Leads to Mastery

by Napoleon Hill

Controlled attention leads to mastery in any type of human endeavor, because it enables one to focus the powers of his mind upon the attainment of a definite objective and to keep it so fixed at will. Controlled attention is self-mastery of the highest order, for it is an accepted fact that the man who controls his own mind may control everything else that gets in his way.

It was this sort of control which Harriet Beecher Stowe had in mind when she said:

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, ‘til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The tide seems always to turn in your favor if you are determined to see that it does. Your state of mind has everything to do with turning the tide. Plato expressed this thought in his statement:

The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.

Francis Parkman showed his understanding of the power of the mind, and particularly the power available through controlled attention, when he wrote:

He who would do some great thing in this short life must apply himself to work with such concentration of his forces as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.

Washington Irving expressed his respect for the power of the mind in these words:

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

The potentialities of the power of controlled attention, through concentration, are many, but none of them is greater, nor more important, than that of concentration upon a definite major purpose. Hidden in these two words: controlled attention – is a strange power that will enable you to remove all self-imposed limitations which most people accept or set up in their own minds, and by which some are bound throughout their lives.
Source: PMA Science of Success Course. Pgs. 334 & 335.

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