Various Points To Note About Developing Your Will Power Efficiently....
(You) has three forces to conquer, three forces which must SERVE or DESTROY him. He must control his physical, emotional and mental attributes
*You may desire and choose for the rest of your life without effect unless you bend your will to the work of fulfilling your desire.
*Your WILL is strengthened or destroyed by the small things. It will follow on important occasions the habits set up in dealing with the minor acts of life. You may deliberately use the details of existence to build up this power, or you may through indifference allow your treatment of them to sap your strength at it's very foundation. Either one or the other is INEVITABLE.
*The DEPENDABLE WILL is the WILL which is trained to do the disagreeable thing as thoroughly as the agreeable.
*By using this power in contradiction to the call of desire and in obedience to the call of reason you are conquering one of the forces we've recognized as your POSSIBLE SERVANTS or enemies.
The WILL which always obeys the call of the senses or desire for pleasure or ease will be worthless in an important crisis.
The WILL which is used as a conscious force by the Self, even to the point of substituting the desire for the development of the WILL for lesser desires, as when you do what you don't want to, may be trusted always in emergency to do just what is approved by the reason rather than what is suggested by the senses.
*The Will demonstrates itself in two method of actions: The power to pour concentrated stores of energy into any one given act, and the power of persistent, indomitable pursuance of a predetermined course of conduct.
*There could be no greater proofs, perhaps, of the tremendous force latent in man which we call Will than the almost universal ability to develop suddenly an almost superhuman physical or mental energy in face of unusual emergency.
*There is no royal way to the possession of a Will. It can be developed in but one way: by persistently and unremittingly compelling yourself to follow any line of action which you have previously decided upon.
*Each time you force yourself to adhere to a determined course, unmoved by the momentary disinclination, you build into your Will structure greater permanence and power, so that your next fight for dominance will be easier.
*Each time you allow yourself to slip, by just that much you weaken your will, no matter what excuse you may make for yourself, so that the next time you have to choose it will be easier to choose the self-indulgence rather than the self-discipline, until the slip comes more seldom, and at last the course upon which you had decided is given up altogether.
Culled from Clare Tree Major's "How to develop your will power"
