attitudes of mind now this is something to think about can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind it's another way of saying we become what we think about look at it this way you're a total environment if you've been an adult for any appreciable period of time your total environment is a reflection of you as a person the house or the neighborhood in which you live the car you drive the clothes you wear the job you do the people with whom you regularly associate your total environment is an exact and merciless