Personally, I relate Thoughts Become Things, because when my grandma passed away with liver cancer, my mom's focus was to NOT suffer the same fate. Alas, she had a healthy liver, but her cancer was at her colon.

Looking back, I think her focus should had been to be be healthy, rather than NOT have cancer, which is quite a big difference, really. The NOT plays an important role, really.

Read this: Do not think of a pink elephant in green socks.

And what comes to mind? A pink elephant in green socks!

The mind does not process the NOT in any instructions. Hence it's best not to have goals like: (Yeah, I tried to pull a Not here, sneaky me)

• I will not smoke again. - Instead a better way is "I cultivate healthy habits"
• I will not let Mary get the best of me. - Instead, "I find constructive ways to work with Mary."
• I will not be poor again. Instead "I am rich."

I guess for the ladies reading this, don't tell your partners "Do not have an affair." :)

As you said, languaging is very important, and what we tell ourselves, and how we tell it, is critical too.

2cents.

p.s. Great performance and speech! #flow