Make an effort. Insist upon your brain waking up and "getting on the job" and doing its share. The old method of "learning by heart" requires a maximum of time and mental effort.
This visual method requires only a minimum of time and mental effort.
Time is of the utmost value to you. Dr. James tells us that over seventy-five per cent of our Mental power is dormant, asleep. Stir yourself. Put a Maximum of Mental Effort into a Minimum of Time; develop an accurate and retentive memory—a worthy servant to be at all times relied upon—the very foundation of your success. You can work wonders with yourself by intelligent and persistent effort.
The Capacity of the Visual Memory is Unlimited.
Faith is the Atmosphere in which Success lives.
Kill Mental Laziness. It has always been fatal—it is as deadly NOW!
It Can Be Done
Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied,
That maybe it couldn't, but he would not be one
To say so until he tried.
So he buckled right in with a bit of a grin
On his face; if he worried he hid it,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done—and he did it.
Somebody scoffed, "Oh, you'll never do that—
At least, no one ever has done it,"
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he'd begun it.
With a bit of a grin and a lift of his chin
Without any doubting or quit it
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done—and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure,
There are thousands to point out, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you;
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Take off your coat and go to it;
Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing
That cannot be done—and you'll do it.
—Edgar Guest.
While you are thinking it can't be done—somebody else is doing it.