Take account of the goodness inside and around you on a regular, ongoing basis. The unsolved problems and unfinished tasks will pull at your attention automatically, and all you have to do is quickly shift your focus with, "Yes, and there's also this good thing, and this one, and this one."

 

Learn how to increase your joy from the world around you in the wonderful book, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness (Amazon purchase link).

 

This is like the old tried-and-true practice of "counting your blessings," and it is a direct and immediate antidote to frustration, stress, and worry.

 

Your mind is a brilliant, highly sophisticated instrument, and is available for you to use in a very positive, beneficial and creative way.

However, be aware that the automatic function of your mind is a survival-based process designed to insure your safety. It therefore is on a constant scan for actual, potential and possible threats to your well being. Without your participation, it will do its job to keep you safe (although it works much better with your participation), but it will not create happiness for you. That's your job.

 

And the very, very cool thing about your brain is that it lights up and activates all of its neurons when you are engaged in creative, enthusiastic, passionate activities. 

 

"What you focus on comes to you. So hold in your mind what you want more of."
--John Roger

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

--Maya Angelou

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
--Jean Jacques Rousseau

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

--Aristotle