HIT AND MISS THINKING
Question—After a lifetime of hit and miss thinking, how do you suggest changing this to a life of constructive thinking?

ANSWER—We have a right to choose what we shall induce in Mind. The way that our thoughts are to become manifested we cannot always see: but we should not be disturbed if we do not see the way, because effect is potential in cause . . and all that comes between cause and effect. Cause and effect are really One, and if we have a given cause set in motion, the effect will have to equal the cause. Begin where you are—take stock. Hit and miss thinking lacks the effectiveness of a real plan. Vagrant thoughts finding lodgment in the mind will never ultimate in anything useful because they are vagrant, and not organized into a definite (page 55) desire. If you would change your life to a constructive activity, deliberately choose some objective or goal you wish to attain, and accept it mentally as being already attained. Instead of vagrant thoughts, definite thoughts along this particular line of fulfillment will c0me into your consciousness because you have set the law of projection or fulfillment into action. Ideas will flow into your conscious mental field because you have opened the way for them. When from habit the old haphazard mental pictures present themselves to your consciousness, definitely put them aside and turn your attention to your new picture.

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