We can get any amount of work done by taking it a moment at a time. It is when we try to take it several moments at a time that it gets beyond us. A business man had a pile of work in front of him on his desk, and was “stewing around” over it, and saying how tremendously busy he was, when another man said to him, “You’re not busy; you’re only confused.” Seeing and thinking about more than one thing at a time brings the confusion that multiplies burdens and hinders the work. It is sometimes well to clear the decks of everything except the one thing upon which we must be working; then to take up the next thing; and so on until the day’s work is done. Concentration routs confusion. Doing one thing at a time gets an amazingly large number of things done.—Selected.