Bear with me! So much talk about depression, and all the stuff that puts us 'in our heads'. Fine! But let's remember, we can ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS change our mind. So let's break free, get out of our own way and start retooling the WAY WE THINK. It's obscenely easy.
Being FBI (Full Blooded Italian), I predictably would analogize that your minds can and should be like pizza dough. And not the store bought frozen stuff, either -- the kind you make from scratch!
You MIX the ingredients, KNEAD them and let RISE for a little while (no, you don't always want to be DOING; sometimes you want to be in RECEIVE mode which is actually the most difficult place to be. But it is where the good stuff starts!)
THEN, you can KNEAD the dough again, ROLL it, flatten it out, make pretty crimp designs around the edges or just slap it up there and ready for baking. STRETCH and SHAPE into new forms. It's your party.
You can also reshape your mindset by STRETCHING the boundaries of your IMAGINATION.
What could you ACCOMPLISH if you knew you could not fail?
What do you WANT? How will you manage that accomplishment when it arrives?
HOW can you MOVE your ENVIRONMENT?
INFLUENCE others in a position to decide in your favor?
EXPRESS love? Gratitude? Joy? Dissatisfaction that will lead to improvement?
LEAD?
PARTICIPATE?
CLEAR or avoid NEGATIVITY?
Just reshape your dough, expand beyond your boundaries and consider NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.
Imagine if everyone did this, would things be better?
I think I'm going to do that right now.