Five Rules for Conserving Energy

I. You must exercise deliberate, patient and persistent watchfulnessto detect and repress all useless bodily movements . You have allsorts of silly habits, twitchings, jerkings, itchings, winkings,shrugs, frowns, coughs, snifflings and odd and meaningless gestures.Watch yourself. Do these things no more. Save your eyes and ears andhands and nerves, all your mental energy, for useful effort.

II. You must give yourself, mind and body, to one thing at a time,disregarding all that would lure you from your chosen task .
III. You must acquire a self conscious sense of your ownself mastery. It will help you to acquire this feeling if you willcontinually assert, "I can and will accomplish anything that I amdetermined upon! I have the power of will! I will accomplish thisthing! I will!" Make these assertions with all the force and intensityof your whole being until you are pervaded with a sense of your ownpower. Do this faithfully, and in time this courageous and manlyattitude will become an inherent part of your personality.
IV. You must have confidence. And when we say confidence we do notmean a purely intellectual conviction. We mean a profoundly emotionalfaith. It will help you to cultivate this feeling of confidence if youwill affirm many times a day, "I have implicit confidence in myself! Ihave perfect faith in my own powers! I am absolute master of myselfand of my career!" Practice affirmations of this kind persistently,and in time your mind will have permanently acquired the habit offacing the facts of life in the way essential to success.

V. You must exert a favorable influence upon the mental attitude ofthose about you . This is not so difficult as it would appear. Youcannot yourself acquire will power, confidence and courage withoutimpressing others with your possession of these qualities.Personalities are revealed one to another by faint and suggestiveactivities all unconsciously perceived. Your concentration of energywill inspire others. You will radiate a "atmosphere" of success. Youwill subtly influence your associates. You will be a force to reckonwith, and the world will know it. Your air of success will draw othersto you, will bring business and goodwill, and men and money will seeka share in your enterprises.

Master your mental energies, train them, concentrate them, thus onlymay you win riches with honor.
Thus broadly put, there is, or perhaps it would be more accurate tosay there seems to be, nothing startlingly new about this proposition.

The world has always realized that singleness of purpose,concentration of effort, is essential to success.
But in the past the world has possessed no formula by which thesequalities might be acquired .
Men have endeavored to create in themselves the necessary qualitiesfor success, having no knowledge of the mental elements that went intotheir composition.

They have tried to run the mental engine knowing nothing of itsmechanism .
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