Every person is what he or she is because of the dominating thoughts which he or she permits to occupy his or her mind.  Thoughts — which a person deliberately places in his or her own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he or she mixes feelings of emotions — constitute the motivating forces which direct and control his or her every act.  Thus, we have the innate ability to plant and grow the seed of an idea or goal in our own mind, through repetition of thought — which thought will then motivate and direct our actions toward that end.