Show STRUNG STRONG DISLIKES DRIVEN TO COVER GOVER BY IMAGINATION Coue System Successfully U Used sed to Over Overcome ome Aversion Aversion Aversion Aver- Aver sion to Daily Tasks or to Fellow Workmen INJURIOUS HABITS J 0 lir BROKEN BY PLAN i Drawing ra ing of Images in Mind Enables Accomplishment I l of Desired Ends and the Achieving of Success I By LAURA MATTHEWS sSp eUI Correspondent with Coue COUI for I 4 The Tho Telegram I J PART II Overcoming your dislike for a ceri i TL task Is another wa way In which you youA A I ean Wn employ your Imagination Suppose Suppose Sup Sup- pose pose you haVe havo a aery very ery ry strong dislike for looking over your you morning maland maland mal mart and dictating your daly daiy letters Every Everyday day jou you dread that task moro and more mor and pass orr the less Important o ones onesto onesto es II to your stenographer to answer 1 Youve You lou ou aye ve frequently told yourself that you could not write a good letter Begin by bY formulating positive thoughts You remember when you did did write good letters you letters you se secured a LI r. r position once because you wrote a n. better better better bet bet- ter letter than the the other applicants Or perhaps you have admired the type of letter a a. certain man dictates Tell yourself that you Jou can write a letter letterI I Just lust as well welt a as he san jean can Tell yourself that until you actually believe actually believe It Then visualize yourself dictating a good letter and once the concept of a a. good letter Is before you you ou can put It tr Into execution because the concept originated In your own mind It Is In this respect that the method proves its sterling Merling worth forth If It you were sere taking a correspondence course In self seir dence deice and they should tell you Jou to re repeat repeat repeat re- re peat to yourself over and over again that you OU can write a good letter you would only develop an unjustified concept concept concept con con- and would believe yourself capable of doing something which you knew nothing about But with this new use of the Imagination the success of your suggestion lies entirely with the mental mental mental men men- tal Images which you Ou succeed in mak mak- ing jag If It you can form a conception of or orthe the letter you can later write it ft If It you ou cannot conceive an Idea of what that letter be be then you can never write It it I care not how much confidence or will power you ou possess OVERCOME DISLIKES You Tou can overcome dislikes for forthe forthe forthe the man you work with if you will but Vise Use your imagination Why do yo you dislike Smith He Jars on Your our nerves he Irritates you Jou and in order not to show how your dislike for jim him you become reserved you steel yourself against all contact with the man You Tou are like an awkward horseman who rides against his horse hOJe instead of ot with him First jou you must stop top resisting him Put your will wilt out of the situation Ride with your horse Project your imagInation imagination imag imag- into his mind and try to honestly honestly hon hon- estl estly see how he feels and thinks A quality of all the truly great is that they are able to enter the ment mental I processes proc proc- eases esses of the man who disagrees with them All great people have had not only developed but also trained Im Im- Im Only imaginative people can ever become great f Conceive of your mind free from t L your prejudices against Smith Your Tour reason tells you that it would be good goodfox fox for you and the firm lInn if you could be beon beon beon on harmonious terms but you tell yourself j that you simply cannot get along with Smith You Tou have tried to but you have hae failed That is yo you have havo willed whiM to to but your imagination never seconded it It because there came up to your mind familiar pictures of your pas difficulties But you will find that the tho instant you are able abla to conceive conceive con con- of ot amicable relations with Smith that they will translate themselves into realities with rapid rapid- tty Never say MY I X wUl wiil get along with because any exertion of the will merely makes for resistance which which in turn produces nerves and and andl Irritability Simply say I can n get get I along with Smith and you will win find 1 yourself doing It I II I would hesitate to take tako up the hackneyed hackneyed hack hack- 1 subject of ot bad habits were I not certain that with the shift shUt of emphasis from the will to the imagination that any habit can be broken DINNER AFTER CIGAR Take for tor or the tho purpose of Illustration the tho dinner after cigar The old popularly popi- popi accepted Idea o of breaking such a habit was something like this On your our way home you Jou would flay yourself yourself your Jour self unmercifully for being such a slave slava to that dinner after cigar You Tou knew It offended your yoU wife You Tou were a a. brut a a. spineless around all good for nothing chap All this thia time your Imagination Is 18 calling up a of or yourself In your smoking jacket and slippers slipper enjoying that cigar You Tou nurse that picture all during dinner while you jou OU audibly assert that tonight you ou are not going going- to smoke that cigar You Tou are fighting the tho situation with your our will but you know all ali the time that you cannot get Jet along without that cigar Thy Why Because you OU cannot annot conceive of yourself doing without It Always remember that your our mental Image Is going to realize itself whether you ou wish it or not This proves that will can do nothing In the way of breaking a habit unless It be directed and led by the thoe tion Never scold yourself or berate your own powers Tell yourself that you jou ou are master of yourself but that just for the fun run O of or it you OU are going to postpone that cigar ar until tomorrow tomorrow morning before breakfast Then map out In detail the image of yourself passing the evening without that cigar There must be no effort of the will be because because because be- be cause your our Imagination and your will cannot dominate you OU simultaneously Let your Jour imagination embroider th that t picture until It becomes something that lives with you Perhaps you will find that you Jou cannot Imagine Ine yourself that first evening without the cigar Then you rou will know that you cannot do without without without with with- out It that evening Never force yourself yourself yourself your your- self to attempt the impossible Put aside all effort and smoke the cigar but work away on the Image of or yourself yourself yourself your your- self passing the tho entire evening without tobacco It may take you several evenings evenings evenings eve eve- to complete that image but when it is thoroughly conceived your habit is broken All that remains to tobe tobe tobe be done Is to carry out the orders of your our subconscious mind and realize the tho Image of yours yourself lf doing without the dinner after cigar MUST USE IMAGINATION Volumes are written these these days days about how bow to develop self sel confidence by telling yourself that tha you ou ar are capable o of doing such and such sucha a thing This method works in those cases where one happens to be what one wishes to become but there is little little of of constructive constructive constructive tive value alue because there is no basis upon which to bul build d. d Suppose a man said to himself every day for twenty years I X am only a wall paper hanger today but I am going to become an Interior decorator What good would It do him unless his imagination were constantly giving him pictures of how he would plan the decoration of or such and s such ch I If the matter were left to him Every ery time he papers a room if he can Imagine how that room should be treated as to woodwork furnishings furnishings furnishings fur fur- etc then he is Js on the way to becoming an Interior decorator but it is his Imagination and not his optimism optimism optimism or his mere thinking that makes him so Self confidence should be an accumulative accumulative accum accum- force from within arising from the consciousness of or ha having done something well and not merely a plaster plaster plas plas- ter applied from without to bolster up your real inabilities Optimism with right thinking can make possible good work but the only kind of self confidence worth the having Is that which comes comes from experiencing the satisfaction of good work Suppose you ou have havea a new business project You Tou have pictured In your imagination every move that you are going to make Even though your friends doubt the feasibility of your plan if your Imagination has bas pictured it to you Jou It Is possible for you to do doIt doit it though It might be impossible for or every one else This thought should give you the greatest sense of security because It assures you that your Jour project project project pro pro- is going to work out for you FORD FOR INSTANCE We are all able to call to mind however however how how- I ever flagrant instances of the wisest people being led astray by their lr I nation Often the same imagination which has made a man wilt will ruin him Take for example Henry Ford Ford- and his peace ship It was he same faculty faculty faculty fac fac- which had given him a vision of ofa a medium priced car within the means of or nearly every working man that led him to attempt to bring peace to warring warring warring war war- ring Europe Why did his Imagination serve him correctly in the first In Instance Instance instance In- In stance and not in the second T To determine this we must analyze what must have been his is mental processes in the first Instance and how they differed differed dif dir from those of the second To begin with he was on terra firma firmaIn In working with machinery He lie conceived con con- of a a. car stripped of nonessentials nonessentials nonessentials made in parts and assembled at ata ata ata a cost within the reach of the average man His imagination gave him de detailed detailed detailed de- de tailed accurate images of every part of ot that machine Therefore he was able to create that machine and make of it what ho he wished a universal car With the peace ship project he was not on familiar ground Instead ol of accurate sp specific and concise pictures of ot the detailed workings of his peace peace expedition his Imagination presented him only with vague general notions notion of how wonderful It would be to bring Christmas peace to the boys boya In the trenches Had he known warfare and foreign conditions as he knew m machine parts he would never neer have had these hazy Images They would have been so clear and accurate that they would have convinced him of the futility of trying to bring bring- bringan an Immature and undesired undesired un- un desired peace to hearts not yet ready ready- for It ft CAN BE TRAINED Your Tour imagination Is an Infallible source source source-of of power on which you ou should learn to lean with the utmost sense ense of or security If Ie the thing Is possible fur for or you to do then you Jou can Imagine it If Ie It Is Impossible your imagination cannot cannot cannot can can- I not give you Images of yourself doing it If It it can deliver up to your our cOnscious conscious conscious con cOn- mind the Images of ot yourself doing that desired thing then It needs only the order of your conscious conscious- mind to put It into effect Unfortunately this applied to all Kinds of Images either good or bad But th the man with the clear conception of the value and Importance of ot this great truth will so o train his Imagination to serve seMe him for hi his his- own good and the advancement of his ambitions Where you have In the past permitted permitted permitted per per- your our unguided ung Imagination to lead you Into bad habits you Jou can now employ that same Imagination to re reverse reverse reverse re- re verse the the trick and help you to free yourself from your old grooves of I thinking and living The image of or yourself as a slave to a a. habit will change to a picture of yourself in complete complete com com- I control of your our memOl memory The image of ot yourself as a half successful man will change to the picture of yourself carrying out to their complete fruition your our various projects You Tou will ill find if It you oU go back in retro retro- over your past failures and successes sue sue- that It was after all your imagination imagination im- im im- im and not your will wili power that tha lead jou you Only then it was an un untrained untrained untrained un- un trained imagination Now you jou ou will be able to harness train guide and direct that power within you until you will no longer follow where it leads but rather you will eo so guide ulde 1 it that It will take you unerringly to the goal 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