Meditation is attention and more, it works.

My meditating friend missed the first train at King's Cross because she was getting her senior railcard, she is a Granny too, then, whilst waiting for train two to come to visit us, took out her sketchbook and started drawing people.....and missed the next two trains.  This is a high level of attention! and my admiration for her rises and rises.  To be able to give that level of attention is as meditation should be, in meditation, you shouldn't be distracted by the people walking by, the ideas floating in the mind, you should be like the artist.
When she did arrive, we went to Houghton Hall to see the house and exhibition of pictures recently returned from St Petersburg to hang where they had once been.  The house had belonged to Robert Walpole who had definately given his attention to being successful and becoming very very rich and powerful.  He built the house and laid out the grounds and collected the pictures.   All of these things are still there which shows that the power of attention works!
The exhibition is on until November 24th and they won't turn anyone away so you can go too.