I live each day feeling confident and grateful.

Two feelings, and neither takes direct orders. You can't sit down at eight in the morning and produce confidence the way you produce an email.

What does take orders is the setup. Which shoes are by the door. Whether the hard task is first or fourth. Whether you leave the house having spoken to somebody who likes you. Feelings turn up downstream of arrangements far more often than they turn up on request — build the day so that confidence and gratitude have somewhere to arrive, and often enough, they do.