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“How
to Develop Self-Confidence
In Speech and Manner” eBook Online Version
--Chesterfield.
FOR THE ELEVENTH DAY
Health--A strong mind in a strong body is the ideal. Stop everything that impairs health, and do those things that will build it up. Good health is a vital element of courage. Joy in work will daily strengthen physical forces. Aim to develop endurance.
Exercise--Hold in the mind the positive thought of perfect health.
1. Breathe deeply.
2. Masticate food thoroughly.
3. Sleep eight hours.
4. Give ten minutes to exercise.
5. Have one "play time" daily.
Memorize the following: nor love, nor honor, wealth nor pow'r, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; with health all taste of pleasure flies.
--Gay.
FOR THE TWELFTH DAY
Silence--Listen much to-day. Silence gives thought time to mature and deepen. It suggests power in reserve. Through frequent periods of silence think things out to a conclusion and form sound judgments.
Exercise--Silently dwell on these:
1. Talk most and you learn least.
2. Still waters run deep.
3. Real growth is silent as it is gradual.
4. The mightiest forces in nature are silent.
5. To hear the spiritual you must listen.
Memorize the following:
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of life, which they are henceforth to rule.--Carlyle.
FOR THE THIRTEENTH DAY
Self-confidence--Assurance, boldness, courage, positiveness, resolution, initiative, leadership, bravery, independence--these thoughts hold uppermost in the mind this day. Claim your own now. Grow in greatness and self-confidence. Be self-reliant. Be equal to every emergency. "I can do all things.''
Exercise--Say these boldly:
1. Self-confidence is essential to success.
2. I rely wholly upon myself.
3. The greatest possession is self-possession.
4. My self-confidence grows daily.
5. I have a high and true estimate of myself.
Memorize the following:
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude.--Emerson.
FOR THE FOURTEENTH DAY
Sincerity--This is truth in the concrete. Cultivate the strictest fidelity to truth, both in thought and speech. Sincerity will be manifest in frankness of manner, directness of purpose, and uprightness of life and conduct.
Exercise--Affirm these with great sincerity:
1. Sail under true colors.
2. Mean what you say.
3. Do everything thoroughly.
4. What the heart thinks let the tongue speak.
5. Do not equivocate, prevaricate, or exaggerate.
Memorize the following:
You know I say just what I think, and nothing more nor less, and, when I pray, my heart is in my prayer. I can not say one thing and mean another: If I can't pray, I will not make believe.
--Longfellow.
FOR THE FIFTEENTH DAY
Concentration--Fix the mind upon one thing at a time. Be interested in what you do. Persistently work for a definite object. Take new responsibilities. Apply yourself diligently. Let desire for achievement make you concentrate with power on the work in hand.
Exercise--Hold these in your mind:
1. Do only one thing at a time.
2. Examine things closely.
3. Avoid everything that distracts.
4. Plan all work as well as you can.
5. Concentrate with all your power.
Memorize the following:
I go at what I am about as if there were nothing else in the world for the time being. That's the secret of all hard-working men; but most of them can't carry it into their amusements.
--Charles Kingsley.
FOR THE SIXTEENTH DAY
Love--This is "the greatest thing in the world." It means sympathy and willing sacrifice for others. "All the world loves a lover," and to be lovable is to attract and win. Let the heart go out to all mankind.
Exercise--Repeat these earnestly:
1. Love envieth not.
2. Love linketh noble minds.
3. Love sacrifices all things.
4. I love my neighbor as myself.
5. God is love.
Memorize the following:
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of Love, and feed his sacred flame.
--Coleridge.
FOR THE SEVENTEENTH DAY
Power--Become equal to great achievements. Do everything with indomitable will and energetic purpose. Put your best into all you do. Accomplish greater things than ever before. Become daily more influential. Become positive, magnetic, strong. Be resolute and persevering. Become equal to every undertaking. '' I can and will do what I will to do.''
Exercise--Emphasize the following:
1. All power is mine.
2. I depend upon my own efforts.
3. True power comes from God.
4. Persistent effort spells success.
5. My power increases daily.
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