Beginning a new journal for 2012, I found these two affirmations from the start of 2011's journal. They really did help:

If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings.
If you change your feelings, you can change your actions.
And changing your actions - based on good thinking - can change your life.


It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It's what you think about.

NS