| Developing clean and tidy ways leads to, through | | | | thinking" and entertainment of thoughts or reveries |
| persistence, as such becoming a habit. Habits are, or | | | | usually indulged in when the mind is bored or idle. It |
| become part of ones nature or of ones personality! | | | | should apply where one is aware that a certain |
| Imagine what an asset such a habit does for ones self | | | | thought, or indulgence in it, is of a crude, vulgar, or |
| assurance and confidence. Apart from that, the impact | | | | otherwise disturbing nature and should therefore be |
| one makes on others, being aware of your | | | | avoided through deliberate control of ones own mind, |
| surroundings or your house always being clean and | | | | by avoidance of such, or changing "the subject" of |
| tidy! And this also should apply to your personal | | | | ones thinking for something more desirable. It is up to |
| appearance in dress and grooming! | | | | the individual what - and what not - is considered "right" |
| If such outer appearance is of such favourable | | | | or "wrong" thinking, but everyone knows for himself |
| impression and your own personal worth, imagine | | | | what is "clean" and what is not and what is preferable |
| again, what consequences a clean and, above all, | | | | and what is better than what one may entertain at the |
| orderly mind can do. An orderly mind not only | | | | time. |
| guarantees the outcome as in the a fore going | | | | As everything, every deed and action starts with a |
| paragraph, but guarantees, system and orderliness in all | | | | thought in the mind, it can be well imagined what a |
| endeavours like solving problems systematically, or | | | | "clean" mind does towards a clean life and ultimately - |
| organising the route and byways of a holiday | | | | if everyone on Earth practiced this - a better and |
| successfully and with the best economical | | | | cleaner world we would live in. |
| consideration etc. A mind "trained" in a "pattern" of this | | | | For this reason and the consideration of thus |
| particular thinking thus becomes habitual and when | | | | distinguishing oneself - surely, it is worth the attempt at |
| becoming so never lets you down. | | | | putting it into practice, if only for no other purpose than |
| There is also such a thing as "mental hygiene" (and I | | | | distinguishing oneself from those with less clean habits |
| am not referring to what is understood as pertaining to | | | | and minds. |
| mental health). By it is meant a certain "cleanliness of | | | | |