While on a recent vacation cruise, I saw a T-shirt that read, “If you are what you eat, eat only delicious.” This influence may explain the few extra pounds I packed home along with a suitcase of dirty clothes.

Maybe we are what we eat, at least from a health-perspective, but more importantly I completely believe that we are what we tell ourselves. So, is what we tell ourselves encouraging or limiting?

A few weeks before our trip, I bought some beginner watercolor art supplies as a hobby I’v...