Make a business of observing the memory signs or tokens you have been
habitually using. Practice tagging those matters you wish to recall with
the labels that form a part of your mental machinery.

Make it a habit to do things when they ought to be done and in the order
in which you ought to do them. Habits like this are "paths" along which
the mind "moves," paths of least resistance to those qualities of
promptness, energy, persistence, accuracy, self-control, and so on, that
create success.

Success in business, success in life, can come only through the
formation of right habits. A right habit can be deliberately acquired
only by _doing a thing consciously until it comes to be done
unconsciously and automatically_.

[Sidenote: _The Mental Combination Revealed_]

Every man, consciously or unconsciously, forms his own memory habits,
good or bad. Form your memory habits consciously according to the laws
of the mind, and in good time they will act unconsciously and with
masterful precision.

"'Amid the shadows of the pyramids,' Bonaparte said to his soldiers,
'twenty centuries look down upon you,' and animated them to action and
victory. But all the centuries," says W.H. Grove, "and the eternities,
and God, and the universe, look down upon us--and demand the highest
culture of body, mind and spirit."

A good memory is yours for the making. But _you_ must make it. We can
point the way. _You_ must act.