Sublime

1 - Find a thought or memory that always seems to brighten your mood, and make that the default thing you can always go back to whenever you catch yourself feeling worry, concern, frustration, impatience, or any other negative emotion. 2 - Do random acts of kindness. These don’t have to be difficult. They don’t have to cost you any money. They don’

For your specific situation, give yourself permission to write down as many fun, outlandish ideas as you can imagine. Don’t worry about what is doable just yet. We simply want to rebuild this mental ability to find fun, and it’ll take some work if you’ve been expecting the sky to fall at any moment.

Try hiking new trails by a lake or just walking in a new neighborhood. Learn a new sport and have fun doing it.

Pick one of these activities, try it out, and then write about it in your Possibilities Journal: Go to a local newsstand and intentionally buy and read a handful of magazines you’ve never read before—and that previously never appealed to you. If you like science magazines, buy a publication with short stories. If sports is your regular read, take h

As soon as you know what you don’t like, you can start thinking about what you’d rather do instead. And once you know that, you’re free to start doing your own thing.

And as we begin to loosen up a bit, we can invite our creativity into the conversation. We could warm up that muscle and begin to ask, What would make this fun? Instead of wishing for an escape from work, what would be a fun way to create more prospects? Instead of hoping for a magic pill, what would be a fun way to stay active and fit? Instead of