Our body is made-up of muscles, and our mind is made-up of neuro-pathways. Both get stronger when we use them, and they both get weaker when we don’t use them. Athletes practice repeating the same physical activity to train a dominate physical behavior pattern. We can practice thinking positive thoughts to train our mind to have a dominate positive thought pattern because repetition strengthens our neural-pathways, and thereby programs the sub-conscious mind. We can make any physical activity or mental thought a dominate habit, if we only keep repeating it. UConn women’s basketball coach, Geno Auriemma, said it best when he said: “ You’re trying to create a pattern, and you have to start doing things a certain way. And the more you do those things a certain way, then it becomes who you are..”