create an "anti-depression, get-up-and-live-your life" toolkit

Here’s the new list

Blue Cards

1. Take forty deep breaths
2. Wash your hair and put on nice clothes
3. Fill someone’s bucket
4. Blow up six balloons
5. Wake up early
6. Exercise
7. Call Latifah, Mom, or Danny
8. Stick to a schedule
9. Write a gratitude list
10. Write a note and mail it
11. Take your meds
12. Meditate
13. Treat yourself
14. Clean a room
15. Stretch for ten minutes
16. Vacuum

Purple Cards

• Read a chapter from Exuberance: The Passion for Life or The Happiness Hypothesis
• Find an animal and massage it
• Memorize a poem
• Give someone a neck rub
• Sketch a Perfect 10 girl
• Decorate two of the cards in this deck
• Do Yoga
• Draw a picture of someone I love
• Blow bubbles
• Go on the internet and learn about something new
• Create a clay sculpture
• Draw a tattoo
• Take a walk in the woods
• Listen to a beautiful song and memorize the melody
• Watch the “nine emotions” clip on the Yoga Shakti DVD
• Sit in the sun
• Add to my story

• What is the problem? What is the outcome you hope for? What are five ways to get there?
• How will I feel about this ten years from now?
• What’s the worst that could happen?

It was fun drawing illustrations for my little “get out of a slump” box.