Self Confidence
It is through this repetition principle that the injurious drug habit is
formed. It is through this same principle that the desire for
intoxicating drink is formed into a habit.
After habit has been well established it will automatically control and
direct our bodily activity, wherein may be found a thought that can be
transformed into a powerful factor in the development of Self-confidence.
The thought is this: Voluntarily, and by force if necessary, direct your efforts and your thoughts along a desired line until you have formed the habit that will lay hold of you and continue, voluntarily, to direct your efforts along the same line. The object in writing out and repeating the Self-confidence formula is to form the habit of making belief in yourself the dominating thought of your mind until that thought has been thoroughly imbedded in your subconscious mind, through the principle of habit.
You learned to write by repeatedly directing the muscles of your arm and hand over certain outlines known as letters, until finally you formed the habit of tracing these outlines. Now you write with ease and rapidity, without tracing each letter slowly. Writing has become a habit with you. The principle of habit will lay hold of the faculties of your mind just the same as it will influence the physical muscles of your body, as you can easily prove by mastering and applying this lesson on Self-confidence.
Any statement that you repeatedly make to yourself, or
any desire that you deeply plant in your mind through repeated statement,
will eventually seek expression through your physical, outward bodily
efforts.
The principle of habit is the very foundation upon which this lesson on Self-confidence is built, and if you will understand and follow the directions laid down in this lesson you will soon know more about the law of habit, from first-hand knowledge, than could be taught you by a thousand such lessons as this.