Forethought may be brief, but it should always be energetic.

By cultivating it we acquire the enviable talent of those men who take in everything at a glance, and act promptly, like a NAPOLEON.

This power is universally believed to be entirely innate or a gift; but it can be induced or developed in all minds in proportion to the will by practice.
Be it observed that as the experimenter progresses in the development of will by suggestion, he can gradually lay aside the latter, or all _processes_, especially if he work to such an end, anticipating it.
Then he simply acts by clear will and strength, and Forethought constitutes all his stock-in-trade, process or aid.

He preconceives and wills energetically at once, and by practice and repetition _Forethought_ becomes a marvelous help on all occasions and emergencies.
To make it of avail the one who frequently practices self-suggestion, at first with, and then without sleep, will inevitably find ere long that to facilitate his work, or to succeed he _must_ first write, as it were, or plan a preface, synopsis, or epitome of his proposed work, to start it and combine with it a resolve or decree that it must be done, the latter being the tap on the bell-knob.

Now the habit of composing the plan as perfectly, yet as succinctly as possible, daily or nightly, combined with the energetic impulse to send it off, will ere long give the operator a conception of what I mean by Foresight which by description I cannot.