Library of Lives Thought of the Day
Jul 20, 2026 · 58 min · 8 segments
What if the thing holding you back isn't circumstances, but a program running quietly in the background of your mind? Yuliya sits down for a raw, honest conversation about the mental patterns most of…
So there's that phrase, you can't, what is that phrase? You can't stop a bird from flying over your head, but you can prevent it from making a nest, right? So that's what thinking is.
A lot of times I think, you know, there's even this phrases that we use, like, oh, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.
Oh, it's Monday.
I didn't
have my coffee yet.
Yeah,
yeah, yeah.
So it's like these things that we are so comfortable with saying or doing or just accepting just because it comes.
We heard someone say this and we're like, oh, well, I'll add that to my vocabulary.
Or you're just a dumbo.
Like, you know, I don't know what they say now.
Like...
This is humor after 12.
Like it's an excuse or something.
But it's
interesting that, you know, words are so powerful that the word I am, I mean, it's used in the Bible.
I am.
And then he has all of these things.
It's his name.
And we are made in his image.
So when I use the word I am, whatever comes after the words I am or I am not, it confirms my identity.
So remember, the brain is a program, right? It's like a computer.
So whenever I think, whenever I say things and think about things, what is my brain going to do? It's going to look for the evidence to prove that.
So if I always think when I walk into a room, I don't fit in.
What my brain is going to do, look around and be like, they're not welcoming me.
So there's that phrase, you can't, what is that phrase? You can't stop a bird from flying over your head, but you can prevent it from making a nest, right? So that's what thinking is.
A lot of times I think, you know, there's even this phrases that we use, like, oh, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.
Oh, it's Monday.
I didn't
have my coffee yet.
Yeah,
yeah, yeah.
So it's like these things that we are so comfortable with saying or doing or just accepting just because it comes.
We heard someone say this and we're like, oh, well, I'll add that to my vocabulary.
Or you're just a dumbo.
Like, you know, I don't know what they say now.
Like...
This is humor after 12.
Like it's an excuse or something.
But it's
interesting that, you know, words are so powerful that the word I am, I mean, it's used in the Bible.
I am.
And then he has all of these things.
It's his name.
And we are made in his image.
So when I use the word I am, whatever comes after the words I am or I am not, it confirms my identity.
So remember, the brain is a program, right? It's like a computer.
So whenever I think, whenever I say things and think about things, what is my brain going to do? It's going to look for the evidence to prove that.
So if I always think when I walk into a room, I don't fit in.
What my brain is going to do, look around and be like, they're not welcoming me.
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