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does to do; as much Will to sit in the chair as it does to get up; as much to stop walking as to start; as much to refrain, as it does to perform. "I can!I can't! and I won't!" require an equal expression of Will. But when we have trained the Will to our decision,"I can't!" then it is easy,"natural," for us to say "I can't." When we have trained it to our decision,"I don't," that is also easy; but when we have trained it to say,"I can," it is equally easy to say"I can," and to do.

The trouble with the majority of persons is that they never have been trained into habits of self-reliance and self-assertion. Lacking these it is natural, because it is habit to say,"I can't." In fact, it says itself, so accustomed are they to say and to think,"I can't."I can't" is really "I won't try! "Can't" means, I will not will to do. Therefore when you tell me that you do not concentrate because you"lack Will," this is not the fact. You really tell me that you have created a habit of letting yourself as Will drift without conscious direction. All you have to do to win your desires is to train yourself as Will through Affirmation, till it is as natural and easy for you to say"I can!" as it is now for you to fear, doubt and say,"I can't." This Affirmation,"I CAN!" is born of the consciousness of ability to do because you possess All-Life and All-Will, and may use as much as you desire. You do use at all times as much as you have trained yourself by thought to use. Would you possess the power of self-direction, you must have power to choose your thought, and to hold it as long as you choose; have power to shut out all thoughts that weaken or interfere; that make sick or timid; must have the power as trained Will to hold, because you