You Can Develop a Powerful Concentration

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Listen to episode 999 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Can Develop a Powerful Concentration. Adapted from Thought Force in Business & Every Day Life by William Walker Atkinson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The individual who can concentrate has a sure remedy for the "blues." How so? Why, just by shutting off the unpleasant thoughts and concentrating on a brighter subject. Thousands of people have found this plan a specific remedy for the "blues," discouragement, worry, fear, and the rest.

Try it, and you will find that life will appear entirely different to you. Try it, and you will begin to feel the thrill of life again, and will thank God that you are alive, instead of cursing the day when you were born. You will do your work better; you will feel better; you will BE better. Is it not worth trying it out?

Take up the exercises I am about to share with you, and go over them until you can do anything whatsoever, without your thoughts wandering....

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1:10.8	Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from
1:29.3	Thought Force in Business and Everyday Life by William Walker Atkinson, published in 1901.
1:40.3	The individual who practices concentration in their daily life
1:49.0	shuts out distracting impressions and gives their best thought force to the task at hand
1:56.0	and does better work by reason thereof.
1:59.0	Whether that person be an architect, office worker, salesperson,
2:03.6	poet, painter, or banker. Every person who has succeeded in life has developed the art of concentration.
2:12.6	They may not realize it, but they have just the same.
2:17.6	And more, any person who will develop the art of concentration will be successful.
2:24.9	The individual who can concentrate has a sure remedy for the blues.
2:29.9	How so?
2:31.3	Why just by shutting off the unpleasant thoughts and concentrating on a brighter
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