change yourself for the better - we all do. But most of us don't know what to do about it. Most of us know tragically little about ourselves. We measure ourselves by the outer picture - we are like a man groping in the dark. We think that if we change our living quarters or our jobs, it will change us. It won't. We have to change the pattern of our subconscious, our habits.

Someone has said personality is a "totality of individual habits" - and it is the difference in habits that makes us different individuals. One person likes sweets, another does not. One person like s to smoke, another doesn't touch a cigarette. The same with coffee and tea. Some people must have their four o'clock tea. Are they hungry? No, its habit. They may be hungry for their breakfast, but whether they drink coffee or tea is purely a matter of habit. It is the sum total of all these little things that makes you into a personality.

These things are very much on the surface. We have other habits, fear habits, that influences the personality terrifically. We are afraid of this and afraid of that, and all these things cramp our personalities.
How are you to go about making the changes you want?

First of all, you must reach through to your "power house" - and that you can do only through your conscious mind. You must start training it. It is very simple in one sense, yet very difficult in another, because of this habit business.

You will start by watching your thoughts very carefully. You watch your words. Even more carefully watch your actions. You must take a mental pencil and cross out every negative thought, word or action - and replace it with a positive one. In the beginning you'll find yourself crossing out most of what you think, say and do, but as you stick to it, you'll be nee ding the mental pencil less and less as you go along.

In the beginning, it is a tedious and difficult thing to do. That is because you are so much a creature of habit. Up