Nothing dismays you but your thoughts.

Your mind sets you up. It has been set for discouragement or defeat. You can reset the dial of your mind. Set your mind to reconfigure itself with encouragement and delight. Encouragement and delight are your allies. Discouragement repeats itself and holds you back.

When you bake a cake, you have a recipe. You assemble the ingredients. You put them in the bowl in a certain order. You chop and stir and blend. You pour the batter into a pan, and you pop the pan into the oven, and later you take the pan out.