Dean Graziosi compares thoughts to bottles floating down a river: you can watch them pass without grabbing them. Most people get stuck identifying with negative thoughts that undermine confidence, but you can choose to release them instead of acting on them.
Stop thinking. Thoughts are not who we are. Thoughts are like a river with bottles going down it. And in each bottle there's a message and that's a thought. And they just keep coming down. How many thoughts do you have in a day? Non stop. In the middle of the night, just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. But we are in control. If a bad thought comes in, like, hey, if you try this, maybe you'll lose everything and it won't work. And you're not smart enough, you're not good enough. You failed in the past. You know what you do? You take that thought, put it back in the bottle and stick it in the stream and let it go.
