to such studies as are dry and uninteresting to them they thus practise voluntary Concentration.  Practise self-denial in every possible way.  Cut off such luxuries as you think “you must have.”  “Take a cold bath when you would prefer a warm one.  Arise promptly in the morning.  Make yourself call upon people you have avoided.  Stand up in a street car when you would prefer sitting; walk when it is convenient to ride.  Make engagements with yourself and keep them.  Promise yourself that when you see something to be done you will spring at once to it however strong may be the inclination to put it off awhile” and back of it all let there be the auto-suggestion:  “I am doing all these hard things in order to build up my Will-Power and each time ‘I’ succeed in forcing ‘my mind’ to do a thing or not to do it I make the next victory easier and my Will-Power stronger.”  Of course the above is only a hint as to your line of practise.

(b) You must not give yourself such hard tasks of Self-Development as might be too heavy and beyond the present strength of your Will.  In denying yourself you develop self-control.  In forcing yourself to do certain things you develop powers of Self-Expression.  In one the Will moves along negative lines.  In the other along positive lines.  Both are necessary.  The man who cannot control and command himself can never develop and express Himself.  But be sure to begin with easy things and then as you gain in confidence you may attempt more difficult feats.

(c) The faculties of Courage and Confidence are essentially important.  Nothing weakens the will so much as Fear and lack of Self-Confidence.  Self-Confidence is not blustering self-conceit.  That within you which says “I CAN” when calmly and doggedly backed by your “I Will” when deliberately translated into action develops Will-Force and commands startling results.

(d) Always hold these words before your passive Mind: 

1.  Earnestness. 2.  Determination. 3.  Courage. 4.  Confidence. 5.  Stick-to-it-ive-ness. 6.  Patience. 7.  I can and I will.

(e) The tendency of the Masculine function of your mind to “I” is towards giving, expressing or projecting energy; that of the Feminine is towards generating and creating mental progeny such as thoughts, mental energy, new habits, etc.  It is why the Feminine Principle has been called the “mental womb” by ancient philosophers.  It comprises also the faculty of Imagination.  The Masculine function does the work of the ‘Will’ in its varied phases.  The Feminine function receives impressions and generates mental offspring in the form of new thoughts, ideas, concepts, thought-habits and so forth.  Its powers of creative energy are strikingly marvellous and have been proved and attested to in Psychological experiments conducted by the best known mental scientists of the day. But “positive” mental energy must be projected by the ‘I’