Every night before retiring, concentrate upon your passive mind:  “When I get up in morning, my Will-power and Thought-Force will have increased.  I expect you to bring about a thorough change in my Will-Force.  It will gain in vigour, resolution, firmness and confidence.  It must grow strong, strong, strong.”  Project these positive suggestions into your subjective self earnestly, confidently and concentratedly.  You will progress quickly by leaps and bounds.  Every morning shall find you stronger and full of vim, sap and energy.  Persevere, persevere.  In following up such ideals to a successful conclusion you must have an (i) overpowering desire; (ii) a strong belief in your ability to accomplish anything; (iii) an invincible determination not a backboneless ‘I will try to’; (iv) earnest expectation.  This is an important and an infallible method in Will-development.

Exercise 13.

Go by yourself into a room where you will not be disturbed.  At the beginning ‘relax’ all over.  Then count from one to ten without allowing any other thoughts.  As soon as you accomplish this, your mind is in a receptive state.  Concentrate as before and order your sub-conscious self to evolve a strong, infallible memory.  Form your own auto-suggestions.

Exercise 14.

Pick out half a dozen unfamiliar faces.  Vividly impress them upon your subjective mind.  Then recall them at least once each day for full one year, each day impressing at least one more new face.  Should you find you are forgetting any of your older faces, do not add new ones but firmly fix the other old faces in your mind through concentration.  This is a very interesting exercise.  Memory belongs to the sub-conscious mind, remember.

Exercise 15.

Concentrate the mind on a paragraph in some holy book and commit to memory.  Learn by heart one paragraph daily taking care not to forget the old ones.  In time, you will improve wonderfully.

Exercise 16.

People with weak memories always lack concentrative ability.  Concentration is the key to all mind-power.  You will find the above exercises quite ‘tedious’ and monotonous.  But you can train your ‘attention’ only by giving it trivial and ‘dry’ exercises.  The strong will can cope with the most ‘monotonous’ and uninteresting tasks without experiencing fatigue.  You must set yourself such tasks as might seem like ‘work’ to your attention.  Remember, the effort required to concentrate attention voluntarily on uninteresting, dry and monotonous works strengthens and develops Will-Power and gives you ‘mental muscle.’  You will thereby acquire firm control over mind and body and be ‘Master’ over your lower impulses.  Power over self will express outwardly as power over others.  If you can control yourself, you will find no difficulty in impressing your will on others.  But, mark you, this sacred power should be used only to elevate, stimulate and strengthen others.  Try your Will