Reflection for the Day

If we flinch from making an effort, before we know it, the effort-making capacity will be gone; and, if we suffer the wandering of our attention, presently it will wander all the time. Attention and effort are but two names for the same psychic fact. Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day:That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points: Every day or two, do something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it.