Before starting your daily practice routine, read and seriously consider the following:

1. Daily Affirmations
   1. How fortunate I am that in this life I am one who has been allowed to create beauty with mathematics.
   2. It is my responsibility to create peace, beauty, and love with mathematics.
2. I will be kind to myself
   1. IT IS ONLY MATH
   2. No matter the level of my mathematical development, how good or bad I think I think, it is only math and I am a beautiful person.
   3. I will not compare myself with my classmates and colleagues, if they think beautifully I will enjoy it and be thankful and proud that I am a member of their brotherhood.
   4. There will always be someone with more mathematical abilities than my own as there will be those with less.
3. Reasons to do mathematics
   1. To contribute to the world's spiritual growth.
   2. To contribute to my own self-discovery and spiritual growth.
   3. To pay homage to all great mathematicians, past and present who have added beauty to the world.
4. Rid your self of the following reasons for being a mathematician
   1. to create self-esteem
   2. to be "hip"
   3. to manipulate
   4. to get rich or famous