How to Develop Willpower and Self-Discipline

How to Develop Willpower and Self-Discipline, by Orison Swett Marden, is all about the will, steadfastness, determination, and the power to see something through to the end. Marden s book stresses the importance of perseverance and provides examples. Though a short read, it is the type of book that should be studied, digested, and applied. "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education," it was said by Professor Huxley, "is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson which ought to be learned, and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson which he learns thoroughly." "I don't do more, but less, than other people. They do all their work three times over: once in anticipation, once in actuality, once in rumination. I do mine in actuality alone, doing it once instead of three times." As one has well said: "He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; he who ceases to become greater, becomes smaller; he who leaves off gives up; the stationary is the beginning of the end--it precedes death; to live is to achieve, to will without ceasing." The willpower described in this book strips away the glitz of today s secrets books, leaving us with the principles that made America great. Simple yet inspiring, it makes a great gift though it isn t the kind of book you just read it s the kind of book you should study.