We can ask ourselves what difference it makes to be mindful. It doesn’t take a long time – you can even find out what difference it makes to the mind in a minute.
If you tell yourself you’ll be mindful for a minute – just watch yourself before you start to be mindful and then just fully be mindful for a minute – and then stop and check what is the mind like now, you can see the difference.
Tasting that difference, you really see for yourselves that there is something to be mindful even if it is for a while. When we can experience for ourselves the benefit this work that we’re doing makes to the mind, then this mind becomes more interested even when we feel like nothing is happening in the moment.
We have to experience it ourselves by doing it.