Disaster is a great attraction, its finality pumps energy into the system. Knowing it is coming requires focus, absolute attention. Imagine you were in control on the bridge of the Titanic. The great boat can only respond slowly. Think of the boat as your body. Since the mind can move more quickly, notice where your eyes are focusing . . are they above the horizon looking up, or are they below, looking down, inside your thoughts, in the past? Are you looking at walls? By all means, get out of enclosures! Seek the sunlight. Go outside, see points at a distance. Best of all, see the sky. Then breathe. Breathe again. Don’t go inward. Keep breathing until an awareness of the vast sky, earth, universe hits you. That’s step one.

Step Two

Before you grab a familiar drug to mask the cause and thereby lose a stunning opportunity to achieve power, realize that all power is inside, and that you have the power to resolve situations. This is the moment you want to power yourself up. Forgive yourself if you missed it in the past. Next time you’ll be prepared and know that a breakthrough requires the muscle of prior reasoning and solid preparation.

[Blog to the New York Times, 4/16/08] “When I needed my ‘libido’ and I mean for assertiveness, not for sex—when I needed to be driven by a necessary anxiety just to deal with things, I had little to draw upon. Problems piled up and that made me depressed.”

The Solution – W r i t e

Sit down and write, thinking is not enough, you’ll be too easily distracted. Writing makes thinking, when focused, solid. It’s like a grocery list, even if you lose it, you’ll bring home more than 90% of what you intended. The List: Write ten or more things of what you are grateful for at this particular moment in your life, followed by a line explaining the benefit that resulted for you. That’s it, nothing more. Simple. Do it.

The result will be that, ideas will form. The seeds of your creative thinking will be watered, releasing possibility, and far better, generating action. Your mighty ship is moving toward the positive. You are where you belong - in the flow, all from an act of appreciation, written words of gratitude from and to yourself. Simple. Do it. It works.