Hinterfrage negative Gedanken: "Bin ich wirklich so ein Totalausfall?" "Haben die wirklich über mich gelacht?" Welche andere Erklärung ist möglich? Welche Gegenbeweise habe ich? Was würden andere darüber denken? ProTipp: Denke den Gedanken in einer anderen Sprache!

Fokussiere auf das Positive: Was ist heute gut gelaufen? Was habe ich schon alles erreicht? Was kann ich gut? Was an unserer Beziehung ist schön?

Folge deiner Freude: Unternimm Dinge, die dich glücklich machen. Wähle einen Beruf, der dir Freude bereitet. Mach Aktivitäten, die du schon als Kind gerne gemacht hast.

Hol dir Hilfe: Wenn du nicht weiterweißt. Wenn du nicht mehr kannst. Wenn du den Weg nicht allein gehen willst. Es ist ein Zeichen von Stärke, Unterstützung zu holen!

Lebe deine Stärken: Suche dir ein Umfeld und eine Tätigkeit, in der du deine Stärken zum Einsatz bringen kannst (und nicht ständig versuchst deine Makel zu kaschieren). Wir blühen auf, wenn wir tun können, was uns liegt und worin wir wirklich gut sind.

Genieße häufiger: Und zwar nicht nur nach getaner Arbeit. Genuss verschafft unmittelbar positive Gefühle: Im Vorfeld (= Vorfreude), währenddessen und im Nachhinein (= Schwelgen in positiven Erinnerungen).

Nimm deine Gefühle an: Sie arbeiten nicht gegen, sondern für dich. Sie weisen dich darauf hin, dass ein Bedürfnis verletzt wurde (z.B. Ärger über ungerecht Behandlung) oder dass etwas für dich Bedeutung hat (z.B. Trauer über eine verlorene Freundschaft).

Sei gut zu dir selbst: Immer. Besonders bei Misserfolgen. Besonders in Krisen. Besonders, wenn du ein geringes Selbstwertgefühl hast. Aber eigentlich im Grunde einfach IMMER! Du bist ein Freund, kein Feind. Vergiss das nie.

Sorge für Ausgleich: Auf Anspannung sollte Entspannung folgen. Meditation, Malen, Singen, Spielen, Spazierengehen, Sportmachen, Träumen und Gärtnern sind alles wunderbare Wege, um Stresshormone abzubauen und neue Energie zu tanken.

Komm ins Hier und Jetzt: Denn hier findet das eigentliche Leben statt. Und das ist erstaunlicherweise auch der Zeitpunkt, in dem wir die wenigsten Probleme haben (weil die vergangenen Probleme schon hinter uns liegen und die meisten Sorgen eh nie eintreten).

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me, or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

It's definitely harder being a dad than a coach.

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.

Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. One has to work just as much with children as with adults, but the manner of work is very different. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act.

We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform.

Theres no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world for the better.

I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.

I try to hit all the places Guy Fieri visits in every city I go to. It's, like, something a 60-year-old would do.

My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.

'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.

It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted

Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business.