Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.
I had this child, and it destroyed my family.
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff.
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.