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“How
to Develop Self-Confidence
In Speech and Manner” eBook Online Version
--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.
Memorize the following: Give me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
--Archimedes.
FOR THE EIGHTEENTH DAY
Temperance--Practice sobriety, self-denial, and moderation. Be temperate in all things. Be strong and resolute. Make the most of yourself. As "the wish is father to the thought," think particularly of those things you desire to bring to pass. Keep yourself in strong and healthy condition.
Exercise--Affirm these earnestly:
1. Let your tastes be simple.
2. Avoid excess of every kind.
3. Daily practice self-restraint.
4. Be temperate in all things.
5. Abstain from that which will harm you.
Memorize the following:
Well observe the rule of not too much, by temperance taught in what thou eat'st and drink'st.
--Milton.
FOR THE NINETEENTH DAY
Sympathy--Feel kindly toward others. Be thoughtful and tolerant. Make the path smooth for others by acts of kindness and words of cheer. Practice self-forgetfulness. Help others to be happy, confident, hopeful, and successful.
Exercise--Think particularly of these things:
1. I am part of all I have met.
2. Grow strong through sympathy.
3. Be always gracious toward others.
4. Have sympathy for all human kind.
5. Constantly develop large-heartedness.
Memorize the following:
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow, for others' good, and melt at others' wo.
--Pope's Homer.
FOR THE TWENTIETH DAY
Geniality--Cheerfulness wins friends. The mind is lighted by mental sunshine, and reflects itself in the face. One can not be depressed while the corners of the mouth turn up. Make yourself attractive, magnetic, and interesting to others. Constantly influence and attract friends.
Exercise--Say these words smilingly:
1. I am always cheerful.
2. My life makes for happiness and success.
3. I smile in the face of trouble.
4. I am brighter and happier every day.
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