statement the moment it pops up in his mind --- nip it short and fill its place with an emphatic, resolute statement of its desirable opposite.

What we all like to do we do well. It is the "must" things that go undone and mis-done, and that are continual thorns in our sides and mill-stones about the necks of our spirits --- it is they which make us heavy hearted and unwilling. Better were it, to never do the "must" things than to continually mis-do them and weight ourselves with that sense of discouragement --- which literally paralyzes the motor nerves.

But there is no need of leaving anything undone. I freed myself from duty-things for the time being because I hoped that by doing so I would learn after a time to love to do them. During the first year or two whenever I did find it necessary to do a duty thing I would take great pains with it and as I did it I kept saying over to myself, "I will love to do this --- I do love it --- I do." I did this with cleaning lamps, which I detested. And after a little I grew to enjoy doing it thoroughly.

You see, suggestion rules our lives to a great extent. We begin to clean lamps with the idea that the oil is nasty and we don't like to touch it Then every time we go to clean it we sniff at the oil and permit ourselves that sense of dislike. Then we get so that every time we think of cleaning it we say mentally, "I detest it so." So the impression deepens as we repeat the suggestions time after time, until we really do dislike it.

Now it is easy to replace don't-like suggestions with their opposite. Just get started right. Look at the