...reached age thirty. James instructed his reader: "Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional...in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain." The lesson, as sales managers chose to see it, was that young recruits could learn the habits of good...

...third maxim may be added to the preceding pair: Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional...'set' to the brain. As the author last quoted remarks : 1 ' The actual presence of the practical opportunity alone furnishes the fulcrum upon which the lever...

...new habit is securely rooted in your life." (3) "Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional...in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain." (4) "Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day" (PP, 127-130)...