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In order to accustom oneself to this storing of
latent power, it will be a good thing to cultivate one's will in this particular
direction.
To start with, one should exercise oneself by repressing the movements of
impatience provoked by delays or similar annoyances.
One should learn to be silent, instead of protesting too vigorously, when one is
engaged in an argument. One should impose upon oneself a delay in making any
reply, at first of a few minutes duration and longer as one becomes more sure of
oneself, and during this period one should strive to suppress every movement
indicative of nervousness.
Then, when the time comes to make proof of one's patience, one should apply it,
while observing oneself most carefully and endeavoring to overcome all the
faults that are likely to interfere with its development.
In order to become persevering, it is indispensable, as we have already said, to
have absolute faith in the projects we undertake.
If, for the rest, the enterprise we have in view is based upon sure foundations;
if we have studied it sufficiently; if we have been wise enough to draw from
similar circumstances the deductions that will enable us to make certain of
success in this case; if we are armed with patience and have, in one word,
followed all the counsels of perseverance, failure will never be the result of
our efforts.
Philosophers claim that all possibilities exist from the moment that we admit
the possibility of their existence.
It is impossible to make any better explanation than this of the value of faith
in oneself in everything that relates to success.
The idea of any difficulty will be banished at the moment that the firm
conviction of succeeding is implanted in our minds. And of all the means of
accomplishing this one of the most efficacious is the confidence that one has in
one's own abilities.
It would be a piece of childishness to deny the power that lies dormant in
words.
Here, then, is a process that one should employ to fortify oneself in one's
resolutions to persevere.
Several times a day, whenever we are able to be alone for a moment or two, we
should summon up all our force of will for a few minutes, and then utter these
words in a firm voice:
"This thing will succeed!"
When the idea is sufficiently implanted in our minds by repetition, we should
add:
"...because it is impossible for it to fail." This exercise of fortifying
ourselves is a particularly good one to practice in the mornings when we wake.
These words should be the motto of our entire day. With them confidence will
penetrate into our minds, inciting us to perseverance in order to achieve the
successful attainment of the desired object.
It is no less vitally necessary to fall asleep with the idea of success in our
minds.
To this end, before settling down for the night's rest, it will be found a good
plan to repeat the phrase of the morning several times to ourselves.
These affirmative and inspiring words will cling in our unconscious memories and
will aid us in preparing for the morrow the energies needed for the formation
of enduring resolutions.
It must be clearly understood that we are now speaking only of rational
enterprises, which fulfill all the conditions of which we spoke at the beginning
of this chapter.
If the enterprise of which we are thinking is a visionary one, all our
persuasive phrases can only result in regrettable consequences. They will merely
contribute to the strengthening and fortifying of the obsession under which we
are laboring.
This will afford a good opportunity for commenting upon the philosophical
axiom:
"All possibilities exist from the moment that we admit the possibility of their
existence."
But we must not suppose that the authors whose books we read do not occasionally
commit the folly of seeing possibilities in something which is after all only
chimerical.
Theirs is the type of reasoning that emanates from the man who is familiarly
known as a "failure," who has made nothing of his career, who has attempted all
sorts of schemes without any real value, or who has not had the energy to
persevere in a sane and reasonable course.
Such men are always glad to rave at the success of others. They seek to minimize
it, if they can not deny it altogether, and even succeed at times in doubting
it themselves.
They decry enterprises of real merit, and laud only those which they declare to
be of wonderful worth. They make a show of despising really useful efforts in
order to employ themselves upon visionary schemes that can never bear fruit.
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