Show the old settler my Yde dearsan arSan Jua ners necessity has compelled me to make a careful I 1 study seuay of personal pens onal efficiency my regular allowance of twenty four hours doled out to me every day was simply not enough for the things I 1 had bad to do a and nd it became imperative that I 1 abandon part of my plans or find a way of ding about twide twice as much in the same time that I 1 had used before I 1 took a correspondence course and it helped a little but I 1 wanted to get the maximum maximum i out ormy of my allowance C my study corse gave to understand der stand that there are fourteen distinct rules for the saving of time but there is one that is ol oj more importance so far as I 1 am conc con concerned eme Cerne than all of them 0 c gether and that rule is to focus time and strength on the problem in hand instead of giving it to the tha digesting of food in excessive amounts or difficult mixtures what a man eats or drinks or gets by any means into the intricacies of his physical and mental machinery has a tremendous influence on his personal efficiency there is in every man a delicate little ittle timer or primer the spirit of poise endurance and accuracy and the regularity with which th s primer ticks has everything t do wi with th the way he comes through with the goods in all his undertakings I 1 wanted to know the relationship of the way I 1 was taxing my digestive capacity to the way I 1 was putting over my work for the better part of a year I 1 kept accords every day of what I 1 ate how much the combination and anic amount and the way I 1 felt afterwards and how long I 1 could c uld work and an d what ifould do I 1 proved now you will gasp but you can believe it or not it makes no difference at all to me I 1 proved beyond all doubt that with eating just enough of the right kind of food I 1 could work three houra longer in a day without being tired and my work was of the nerve racking kind kin d after eating certain things I 1 special samples of my efficiency fici ency to see how high they ran as compared with what I 1 knew I 1 ought to do I 1 tell by my feelings what the di different afe rent kinds and amounts of food had d done one for me but I 1 could take a long row of figures arid and add them up rapidly if the tji e primer in the sanctum of my mentality was clicking as it ought to I 1 would get 9 et the same answer jour four out of five times but if what I 1 had bad eaten I 1 was requiring more than its share of the efficiency element within me I 1 might get the same answer abut but twice or maybe get five dif ferent answers most people know that there are times when they simply are not there but they refuse to believe that it is due to any indiscretion in eating or otherwise indulging the time will come when a man will be rated by the degree to which he can bring his poi powers ers to the focus and nd hold them at their maximum of efficiency by ign himself of all foolish and unnecessary ec essary indulgence ALBERT R LYMAN |