It is not the easiest thing to learn to control and to prolong the
attention, but it is one of the most important. Great results are never
easily accomplished. Easily diverted attention is a contributing cause
of failure in every undertaking and if allowed to continue, will become
habitual absent-mindedness. See to it that your child does not acquire
this unfortunate handicap.
The cure for diverted attention is to enter whole-heartedly and wholly
into everything that you do, no matter how trivial it may be, do not
change or lose your enthusiasm over it until fully completed. If you
discover something more desirable, put it aside for the time being and
attend to the thing started, until you have finished.
Learn to use better judgment about what you start, and when started,
never change. It is the tendency to change which you are striving to
overcome.
When one thing is finished go directly and enthusiastically to the
next, without hesitation or indecision. If uncertain, learn to make a
decision and go through with it to the end, and then do the better
things which may have suggested themselves after starting.