In many points of time, I've managed to shrink my life down to one narrow, searing myopic point of anxiety and unhappiness that I'm consumed by.

Now, I make a conscious decision to keep my vision "wide"; to remember the wide possibilities that exist and that there's nothing that I've ever been through that someone hasn't survived past successfully. I try to look for opportunities to widen that vision, to find things, new or old, that remind me and inspire me.

It's not always an easy thing. Sometimes those doubts creep back in. The anxiety takes hold of me and I just want to curl into a ball and shut out the world. But you have to fight through those moments, realizing it's only a temporary state.

If you can manage to make those moments shorter than the good moments in life, I think you've succeeded.