Do you feel as if your life is in complete ruins? Maybe just one or two areas need improvement. One needn’t be in serious danger to undergo transformation and growth, but oftentimes, crisis is a course correction mechanism that occurs when your life is not in sync with your purpose. Course corrections are actual steps taken to let go of the past and design a future that permits you to live the life you truly want to live.

Depressed or bored people do not usually make miracles, and even if they do, they assume that it’s a fluke. Depression requires emotional, intellectual, and physical cleansing. If left untreated, it will destroy your entire life.

Are Your Depressed? SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION INCLUDE:

Fatigue or loss of energy, sluggishness

Mood swings

Increased anxiety

Feelings of worthlessness, despair, or excessive guilt

Diminished ability to concentrate and focus

Indecisiveness

Overeating or loss of appetite

Loss of interest in activities you used to enjoy

Unwillingness to leave the house

Feeling negative, tense, and angry

Difficulty sleeping or sleeping too much

Recurrent thoughts of death or specific plans to commit suicide

Depression is often linked to anger. Make a list of people you are angry with, including yourself.

The natural laws that govern this physical universe contain two important components: cause and effect. Either you are causing something or you are the effect of something. It’s just that simple. Examine any incident in your life, and you will find that you fell into one of the two categories.

People who are depressed have suffered by being at effect over and over again. They stay at home, no longer participating in life. They’ve had so many losses that they forget that they can change the tide. Feeling that they may never again be at cause, they start to sink into hopelessness and despair.

Think of it this way. Remember a time when you were playing a game, but you kept on loosing. It can be any game, really. What was your reaction to loosing the game over and over and over? Perhaps you’ve seen this in a child. What does the child do?

Well he gives up, of course. He stops playing the game. Life is nothing more than a big, big game. And those who are depressed have stopped playing.

The quickest way to turn it all around is to learn to be at cause again. It’s not difficult. Whether you are depressed or not, answering the following questions will help you to move in a good direction.

What can you change today? Maybe it’s something simple like moving your car or doing your hair. Perhaps it’s something bigger. Whatever you have the ability to change, write it down.

What do you have the ability to create?

What project could you do right now that would help you feel better?

If you could wave your miracle wand and enact one major (and seemingly impossible) change that would correct your life, what would it be?