I found that I was by default beginning the day by speaking the words of my pride or fear into each day. Framing the day in terms of me was effortless. I wanted to change that, but changing habits of the mind is immensely tricky. Thoughts are slippery things. We can’t grab them. Actually, we can’t even touch them, and they often happen before we know it. Hence their power. They are the unnoticeable emotional water we swim in that ends up shaping everything.