How Conscious Awareness Can Transform Your Life When I was 24 years old, I heard the sentence: “You decide for yourself when you want to be happy.” Those words stayed with me all day. That evening, I decided to take a closer look at my thoughts. I made a commitment: for every negative thought, I would consciously replace it with a positive one, whether I believed it or not. And so I did, consistently. During the first week, it was painfully clear how many negative thoughts pa