A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.

Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.

When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe.

Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be.

Any picture firmly held in any mind, in any form, is bound to come forth. That is the great, unchanging universal law that, when we cooperate with it intelligently, makes us absolute masters of the conditions and situations in our lives.

So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which results in a slow reaction, or no reaction at all. Do you have a great, ultimate goal to reach that requires attaining lesser objectives along the way? Well then, let the many lie inactive and direct your force at the nearest or first; once you accomplish that, take up the next and so on.