When you truly believe in yourself, you stop living in the past and your regrets and sorrows disappear. You stop worrying about the future and your doubts and fears fall away. You stop focusing on what you’re not and begin seeing all that you already are. Then, with your mind a calm as a glassy sea, you effortlessly think thoughts of gratitude for the present and for your dreams tomorrow. These thoughts will then do what all thoughts must do; strive to become the things and events of your life. But this time around, now that you believe in yourself, they’ll have less competition.

-Thoughts Become Things: Choose Them Wisely, pg 17